On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, John Cremona wrote: > > Yes, I ran into that too. I don't much like the fact that elements of > GF(p^n) have different types depending on whether n=1 or n>1, neither > type is a specialisation of the other. > > I suggest opening a ticket but making it wider, namely to unify the > user interfaces for the different finite field classes.
I agree. There is also http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/1802 and lots of talk at http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/2384 > > John > > 2008/9/3 Nick Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> {{{ >> sage: GF(241^2, 'a')(1).minpoly() >> x + 240 >> sage: GF(241, 'a')(1).minpoly() >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> AttributeError Traceback (most recent call >> last) >> ... >> AttributeError: 'sage.rings.integer_mod.IntegerMod_int' object has no >> attribute 'minpoly' >> }}} >> >> Nick >> >>> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
