#11946: Finite fields: add "primitive_element" as alias for
"multiplicative_generator"
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Reporter: jdemeyer | Owner: AlexGhitza
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-4.7.3
Component: basic arithmetic | Keywords: GF
Work_issues: | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: | Author: Jeroen Demeyer
Merged: | Dependencies:
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In the literature of finite fields, a generator for the multiplicative
group is often called a "primitive element" (or primitive root). We
should add a method `primitive_element` which returns the multiplicative
generator.
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