William Stein wrote:
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 12:39 PM, D.C. Ernst<[email protected]> wrote:
Great, thanks! This is the sort of thing I was trying, but I wasn't
handling the indentation correctly. Perhaps y'all can help me with a
related issue. I'd like my abstract algebra students to use Sage to
do some computations involving the group of units mod n. I've been
fiddling around myself first. Suppose I do the following in Sage:
U=Integers(40)
for j in range(1,16):
for k in range(1,40):
if gcd(k,40) == 1:
print (U(k))^j
As expected, I get a really long list of values. Is there a way to
chop this up in a way that would be palatable to my students? I want
them to do some exploring of orders of elements and I know there are
commands that will just give them the answers I seek, but I want them
to be able to interpret the data. Any suggestions?
Making
print (U(k))^j
into
print (U(k)^j), # note the comma.
might help.
This does help. BTW, above, I meant to write (swap order of k and j):
for k in range(1,40):
for j in range(16):
if gcd(k,40) == 1:
print (U(k))^j
Is there a way to insert a character after each (U(k))^16, so that it is
obvious where the loop (correct terminology?) starts over? Also, feel
free to offer a different approach to this altogether.
Dana
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