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On Mar 4, 2011, at 6:00 AM, kcrisman <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Mar 4, 12:17 am, Robert Bradshaw <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 5:16 PM, kcrisman <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Mar 2, 5:05 pm, achrzesz <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> I'm not sure if this is relevant but
>>>> sage: power_mod(2,-1,990)
>>>> also gives helpful error message
>>>> and checking for exponent -1 is not necessary
>>>> A Ch
>> 
>>> Relevant, but of course what I'm really getting at is exactly how to
>>> deal with a user who does the original thing (mod(2,990)^-1 ) and is
>>> not immediately sure what went wrong because of the lack of error
>>> message content.  Particularly if it is in the middle of some long
>>> script where they forgot to check a gcd condition, for instance.  For
>>> me personally it is not that big a deal :)
>> 
>>> Any thoughts by those who've worked in integer_mod.pyx?
>> 
>> Wow, that's a pretty bad bug. I'm amazed it's been there so long, I
>> guess I've only inverted invertable elements all this time... I'll fix
>> it right away. Is there a ticket for it yet?
> 
> I don't think so, because I was hesitant to mess with mpz stuff.
> Thanks!
> 
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