Hello,
maybe an upstream feature request could help, too at http://www.singular.uni-kl.de:8002/trac/report/1?sort=ticket&asc=0&page=1 Jack Am Montag, 23. Januar 2012 10:32:57 UTC+1 schrieb syd.la...@gmail.com: > > In current version of sage you can not have a singular object for k(a) > [x] when k is a non-prime finite field and a is transcendental. This > is because singular does not support defining such rings explicitly, > while if k was prime we had no problem. > > I don't know what the developers of singular were thinking, but > probably the fundamental solution is to change the singular code. But > meanwhile, one can define > prime_field(k)(a)[t,x] > and then quotient it with p(t) with minimal polynomial of the field > extension. > > This helps the user to use lots of functions, as elementary as lcm, > which are depending on Singular. > > I have written the code, if everybody is happy with this short-cut > solution, I can go ahead an put the code on the trac > > Cheers, > Syd -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
