#11946: Finite fields: add "primitive_element" as alias for
"multiplicative_generator"
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Reporter: jdemeyer | Owner: was
Type: enhancement | Status: needs_work
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-4.7.3
Component: user interface | Keywords: GF
Work_issues: | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: | Author: Jeroen Demeyer
Merged: | Dependencies:
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Changes (by jdemeyer):
* status: needs_review => needs_work
Comment:
Replying to [comment:3 kini]:
> And something else a bit bizarre is happening. With the diff I pasted
above, the second test produces the output `a`, which matches the last
doctest in the docstring of the `multiplicative_generator` method. But
your patch gives `a + 5`, even though it's just calling
`multiplicative_generator`
This is because of different random seeds. For large finite fields, it
takes a ''random'' irreducible polynomial to generate a finite field. So
one `GF(19^32)` is not the same as a different `GF(19^32)`.
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