yeah I just ran it on a linux system and it works fine! Any idea as to where I can get a patch to make it work on the VMWare player on windows?
On Jun 17, 8:22 pm, Craig Citro <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > > thanks! however, not quite there - how do I get the units in terms of > > q? > > So I just tried this in sage 4.0.2.rc2, and here's what I got: > > sage: K.<q> = NumberField(x^2+2) ; K > Number Field in q with defining polynomial x^2 + 2 > sage: B.<x> = K[] > sage: A.<c> = K.extension(x^3+(q^3)*x^2+(2*q^2)*x-3*q) > sage: A.unit > A.unit_group A.unit_ideal A.units > sage: A.unit_group() > Unit group with structure C2 x Z x Z of Number Field in c with > defining polynomial x^3 - 2*q*x^2 - 4*x - 3*q over its base field > sage: A.units() > [q*c - 1, (-405*q - 1845)*c^2 + (674*q - 3960)*c - 2058*q - 1465] > > Is that what you were looking for? You could also do this (continuing > the above session): > > sage: U = A.unit_group() > sage: U.gens() > [-1, q*c - 1, (-405*q - 1845)*c^2 + (674*q - 3960)*c - 2058*q - 1465] > > To be honest, I haven't thought at all about what new patches made > this work (as the .units() call clearly failed before) -- but I bet > the patch was by either Nick Alexander or John Cremona, so maybe one > of them can pipe in and say "oh, I fixed that" to earn their fame and > glory. ;) > > -cc --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
