On 3/1/07, didier deshommes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2/25/07, Craig Citro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > So I tried to generate a random polynomial today, and ran into some trouble.
> > Here's what I did:
> >
> > sage: R.<x> = ZZ['x']
> > sage: R.random_element(3)
> > <sage crashes>
>
> That is a nice edge case. I would say that or you just return 0
> everytime. Other rings seem to do that:
> {{{
> sage: RR.random_element(0)
> 0.000000000000000
> sage: QQ.random_element(0)
> 0
> sage: RDF.random_element(0)
> 0.143951483848
> }}}> > I traced back the problem, and it's not clear what the right fix is. So > > R.random_element makes a list of the appropriate length and calls > > ZZ.random_element(0) to fill it up. In the comments, it clearly explains why I've fixed this for sage > 2.2. The patch is attached in case you're interested. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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