On Jan 15, 2008 1:58 PM, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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.
+1 E, (P,Q) = generic_points(2) is not so good, since the name "generic_points" suggests it returns generic points, not a curve. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
