>> >> Are you seriously claiming that "power series over a finite field" have no >> applications? > > > I can imagine you could invent an "application", so I would not say these > objects > have "no applications". I can even invent one application for you. The > application is > "show a structure that can be created by a computer program that consists of > a power > series etc etc." This sort of smacks of the self referentiality that comes > from answering > the command: > > Use X in a sentence. > > by the response > "Use X in a sentence. >>
Power series over finite fields play a very important part in the algorithms used in elliptic curve cryptography. That is a real world application, and not one which has been invented for the sake of it. John -- 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/d/optout.
