Dear Graeme, The code you sent me, etc., is now here:
http://sage.math.washington.edu:9002/sage_trac/ticket/262 It will definitely get incorporated into SAGE in the near future. Thanks!! -- William On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:57:49 -0800, GD Taylor wrote: > Hello, > > Currently, asking SAGE for the cardinality of an elliptic curve over a > non-prime finite field gives the following message > > WARNING: Using very very stupid algorithm for counting > points over non-prime finite field. Please rewrite. > > For elliptic curves with coefficients in the integers this is a fairly > easy rewrite, which I've attached as the function smartercard; I > describe the mathematical background here- > http://maths.straylight.co.uk/archives/67 . However, I lack the > programming skills to tie this into SAGE; since there are coding > sprints in the near future, perhaps someone could take a look at > incorporating this idea? > > Cheers, Graeme > > -- > Graeme Taylor > Postgraduate student > http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~s0677951/ > -- > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---