On Jan 15, 2008, at 9:39 AM, Nick Alexander wrote:
> >> Perhaps something like >> >> P, Q = generic_points(2) >> P+Q # this works (assuming we can do the fraction field arithmetic >> efficiently enough) >> >> where P and Q are defined over the same ring large enough to make >> them independent. (I'm not returning the new curve here because with >> a variable number of points I think this would be more cumbersome, >> but one can always do E.parent()). > > Do it like objgens(): > > E, (P, Q) = generic_points(2) That would work too, though I personally would probably ignore the returned curve most of the time, and don't find the above notation as intuitive. - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
