On Dec 2, 2006, at 13:43 , William Stein wrote:
> > Finite fields evidently need a lot of work before they are released. > Thanks for pointing this out. Here are some further problems: > > sage: GF(2).is_field() > False > sage: GF(next_prime(10^20)).is_field() > False > sage: GF(19^20,'a').is_field() > Traceback (most recent call last): > ... > ZeroDivisionError: Inverse does not exist. > sage: GF(8,'a').is_field() > True Now I'm really confused. Using 1.5, pre-alpha 5, all the above get 'True' as an answer. The only optional packages I have installed are 'gd' and 'networkx'. sage: version() 'SAGE Version 1.5-alpha5, Build Date: 2006-11-25' sage: GF(2).is_field() True sage: ver verbose version sage: GF(next_prime(10^20)).is_field() True sage: GF(19^20,'a').is_field() True sage: GF(8,'a').is_field() True Perplexedly, Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-at-Large () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign /\ Help Cure HTML Email --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
