On 19 May 2015 at 10:17, Simon King <simon.k...@uni-jena.de> wrote: > Hi Nils, > > On 2015-05-18, Nils Bruin <nbr...@sfu.ca> wrote: >> On Monday, May 18, 2015 at 2:43:46 AM UTC-7, Simon King wrote: >> >>> - There are ways to make the conversion automatic, but I would recommend >>> against it (perhaps it is safer to use K2.register_conversion instead >>> of K2.register_coercion?) >>> - You can obtain a homomorphism and use it explicitly for conversion. >>> Depending on the application, this solution is preferred. >>> >> >> I think registering conversions is only safer in the sense that conversions >> don't get used automatically in so many situations. > > Yes, that's exactly what I meant. > > Do you agree that conversion (not coercion) between finite fields of equal > size (mapping generator to generator) should be enabled by default?
-- assuming that the generators have the same minimal polynomial of course! what about the general case? John > > Best regards, > Simon > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-support" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
