On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:53 PM, John H Palmieri
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I have some code which generates a bunch of expressions of the form
> Sum (n_i a_i) where each n_i is an integer and each a_i is an unknown
> in a field, and I'm most interested in the case when the field is GF
> (p). Set each of these expressions equal to zero.  What's the best way
> in Sage to solve the resulting system of equations for the a_i's?
>
> For example, I can't figure out how to use 'solve', because I can't
> figure out how to insist that the variables be treated as elements of
> a particular field.  Is the only way to convert everything to a matrix
> equation?

Is p big or small?  Just to be clear above, are you *really* just
solving a system of linear equations modulo p?

William

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