Two comments: A) There is no such thing as "different finite fields of the same size with the same generator name"
sage: GF(4, 'a') is GF(4, 'a') True sage: GF(4, 'a') is GF(4, 'b') False There is no way to cast finite field elements to other finite field elements apart from the prime subfield case. B) The ambiguity in mapping GF(p^n) to itself is of course super-important and gives rise to lots of interesting mathematics. -- 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.
