PARI doesn't have a log_repr() to begin with, so I don't see how that's 
relevant.

On Sunday 03 Jun 2012, Jeroen Demeyer wrote:
> On 2012-06-03 12:14, Martin Albrecht wrote:
> > 2) K.multiplicative_generator() currently returns a random generator, but
> > for the GivaroGFq implementation we should simply return the generator
> > which has internal representation '1', i.e., the guy we actually use to
> > represent the elements. Once this done log_repr() will also start to
> > make sense again.
> 
> On the other hand, doing this for the Givaro interface but not for the
> PARI interface (where logs are never used) is also confusing.  I would
> say: leave things as they are.  Note that the generator is not "random",
> it is deterministic.

Cheers,
Martin

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