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
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