#6428: Large exponents overflow to negative in polydict ring
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Reporter: broune | Owner: tbd
Type: defect | Status: needs_review
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-4.3.1
Component: commutative algebra | Keywords:
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Upstream: N/A | Reviewer:
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Comment(by was):
> This patch simply reports an error if this happens. I thought the
polydict
> ring was supposed to allow arbitrary precision exponents.
Since in the entire Cython implementation of polydict, the exponents are
represented internally as C ints there is no way it is supposed to
represent arbitrary precision exponents. One could write something that
does arbitrary exponents, but that ETuple stuff simply isn't such a thing.
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