On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 08:44:30 -0800, Jack Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I reported the underlying bug to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> but I thought I would mention it to you as well.
>
> http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/doc/html/ref/node83.html
> suggests defining a polynomial from kash by using
>   f = kash('X^3 + X + 1')
> However this fails because "kash3 -d" alters the definition of
> X and sage calls kash3 with the -d flag.
>
> During the initialization of kash in sage, it may be helpful
> to issue "X:=ZX.1;" to kash so that X is re-re-defined back
> to the normal definition (which is in place if you call kash3
> without the -d flag).
>
> This is present on sage-1.4.1.2 compiled and sage-1.4.1-ubuntu
> with "sage -i kash3_linux-2006.01.31" run.  The underlying
> kash issue is present both in the version of kash downloaded
> with sage and the version I downloaded directly.
>
> Here is the sage log, let me know if you'd like any more
> information (like the kash bug report or system info, etc).

Thanks.  I've programmed around this bug for next version
of SAGE by having the kash interface always issue the line X:=ZX.1;
at startup.

Thanks!!

william

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