On Dec 6, 8:38 am, Dan Grayson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Dan,
> Is there a plan for getting factorization over finite fields into > sage? I ask, > because I'd like to get it into Macaulay 2. Do you mean are we working on fixing this bug in Factory? Then the answer is "no" AFAIK, but the problem has been reported upstream in Singular. I am not sure if Singular 3.1 will bring improvements there. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > | Sage Version 3.2.1, Release Date: 2008-12-01 | > | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information. | > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > sage: K.<a> = GF(49,'a') > sage: R.<x,y> = K[] > sage: f = (x+a)*(x^3+a*x+a) > sage: f.factor() > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > NotImplementedError Traceback (most recent call > last) > > NotImplementedError: Factorization of multivariate polynomials over > non-prime > fields explicitly disabled due to bugs in Singular. Cheers, Michael --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---