#7016: Bizarre results when taking the mod of a p-adic number
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Reporter: jonhanke | Owner: tbd
Type: defect | Status: needs_work
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-6.4
Component: padics | Resolution:
Keywords: padic, mod, % | Merged in:
Authors: Sandra | Reviewers:
Rozensztajn | Work issues:
Report Upstream: N/A | Commit:
Branch: | e0cf7fea4356258e9b7545b537691fb973ff6d84
u/rozenszt/bizarre_results_when_taking_the_mod_of_a_p_adic_number|
Stopgaps:
Dependencies: |
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Comment (by jdemeyer):
Replying to [comment:3 roed]:
> This is a consequence of the fact that those two elements have different
parents:
>
> Most rings in sage return an element of the same ring when applying the
operation `%`. The function you want is residue.
>
> There are some tricky questions for `%` and `//` and how they relate.
That may be, but it's still a poor excuse for having "bizarre" results for
`%`. If `%` makes no sense, better disallow it completely.
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/7016#comment:13>
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