Thanks.  I have a work-around (invert u and multiply -- obviously u is
not always 1).  If you have not yet opened a ticket, I can.

John

On 7 August 2014 19:09, Volker Braun <[email protected]> wrote:
> Bug in Polynomial_zmod_flint, the remainder is returned instead of the
> quotient:
>
> sage: F = GF(47)
> sage: x = polygen(F)
> sage: u = F(1)
> sage: x.quo_rem(u)
> (x, 0)
> sage: x // u    # should be quo
> 0
> sage: x % u     # is rem
> 0
>
>
>
>
> On Thursday, August 7, 2014 4:39:18 PM UTC+1, John Cremona wrote:
>>
>> Can someone explain this?
>>
>> sage: F = GF(47)
>> sage: x = polygen(F)
>> sage: u = F(1)
>> sage: x/u
>> x
>> sage: x//u
>> 0
>>
>> I would expect the second result to be the same as the first, as an
>> exact division.  And over (for example) Q, it works as expected:
>>
>> sage: F = QQ
>> sage: x = polygen(F)
>> sage: u = F(1)
>> sage: x/u
>> x
>> sage: x//u
>> x
>>
>> Bug?  I found out that the real name of the // operator is __floordiv,
>> and in the first example x.__floordiv?? displays the code, which
>> appears to tell me that when the two operands are of different types
>> (as here), the function bin_op(self, right, operator.mod) is returned.
>> The "operator.mod" looks like the culprit!
>>
>> John
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