On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:20 AM, Kwankyu <ekwan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi William,
>
> All right. I thought F* is the natural group structure on "F".

But F* is not equal to F. :-)

>  I want
> to mention that additive order function is not even defined for
> elements of finite fields in Magma.

Just out of curiosity, could you comment on my proposal that "order"
be removed, and replaced
by *only* additive_order and multiplicative_order?  I personally never
use order anymore, since I'm
always scared it is the wrong order.

William

>
>
> Kwankyu
> >
>



-- 
William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org

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