#7931: Improved nth root for finite fields and integer_mods
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Reporter: roed | Owner: AlexGhitza
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-4.3.1
Component: algebra | Keywords: finite fields, nth root
Work_issues: | Author: David Roe
Upstream: N/A | Reviewer:
Merged: |
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Implements an algorithm described in
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Johnston, Anna M. A generalized qth root algorithm.
Proceedings of the tenth annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithms.
Baltimore, 1999: pp 929-930.
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This means we can take nth roots with large n, since we no longer need to
create the polynomial x^n-a.
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