On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:50 PM, Kwankyu <ekwan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > This is surprising to me. > > sage: F.<a> = GF(2^3) > sage: a.order(),a.additive_order(),a.multiplicative_order() > (2, 2, 7) > > Who is interested in the additive order of a? I think that order() > should be aliased to multiplicative_order().
Well I think "order" should be deleted, since it's potentially ambiguous and confusing. By the way, since a is an element of F (since a.parent() == F), and the only natural group structure on F is addition, the right meaning of "order" would be the additive order. -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
