subject:"Re\: \[sage\-support\] points on a Fermat curve"

Re: [sage-support] points on a Fermat curve

2018-04-13 Thread David Joyner

On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 7:26 AM, John Cremona wrote: > This looks like a bug to me: > > sage: F=GF(3) > sage: R.=F[] > sage: C=Curve(X^8+Y^8-Z^8) > sage: C.count_points(1) # correct count over GF(3^1) > [4] > sage: C.count_points(8) # should give counts over GF(3^n)

Re: [sage-support] points on a Fermat curve

2018-04-13 Thread John Cremona

This looks like a bug to me: sage: F=GF(3) sage: R.=F[] sage: C=Curve(X^8+Y^8-Z^8) sage: C.count_points(1) # correct count over GF(3^1) [4] sage: C.count_points(8) # should give counts over GF(3^n) for n=1..8 but it crashes TypeError: F (=[X^8 + Y^8 - Z^8]) must be a list or tuple of