Hi, I am the guy who asked the question in the LiDIA mailing list. Yes, Z_q means the finite field F(p), so I will look have a look at Sage.
Cheers, Steffen On 2 Okt., 03:26, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/1/07, John Cremona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > This came into the LiDIA mailing list (which I have been on for > > years). Would there be a positive response possible from Sage at this > > point? > > If "Z_q" below means "GF(p)" for p a prime, then you can tell him that > Sage is faster at arithmetic in GF(p)[x,y,...] than any other program in > existence... If it is the Witt vectors, then no. If it is is Z/qZ > with q composite, > no. > > William > > > > > John > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: Steffen Reidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: 1 Oct 2007 14:21 > > Subject: [LiDIA] multivariate polynomials > > To: LIDIA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Hi all, > > > I have recently installed the LiDIA library and I am quite happy with > > it. Nice docu and examples. Now I need to implement some multivariate > > polynomials over Z_q in at least 6 variables. According to the > > documentation and a brief google search, LiDIA provides no direct > > functionality for multivariate polynomials. For efficiency and the > > avoidance of headaches I am not keen on a recursive implementation such > > as P(x,y) = P1(P2(x)). If anybody knows a good solution for the problem > > or has some code available that would be really great. > > > Cheers, Steffen > > > _______________________________________________ > > LiDIA mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://www.cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/mailman/listinfo/lidia > > > -- > > John Cremona > > -- > William Stein > Associate Professor of Mathematics > University of Washingtonhttp://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
