By default, Singular uses 16 bit exponents. But it is perfectly capable of working with exponents up to 64 bits. That will be slower of course.
I guess it isn't easy for Sage to change the relevant ring upon overflow to one using 64 bit exponents. I can't say whether it would be easy or hard for Singular to automatically change the exponent size for you. For basic arithmetic, I have implemented precisely this in the code I've been writing. But Singular is almost infinitely more complex than the very simple cases I've been dealing with in my own code. At this stage I couldn't even hazard a guess. I'll ask Hans if I remember. But either way, I believe this would be an *extremely* time consuming thing to fix. How important is it? Bill. On Wednesday, 5 October 2016 01:10:31 UTC+2, Jakob Kroeker wrote: > > > https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/6472 > > even for recent singular upgrade > > https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/17254 > > and it was not(?) reported to upstream... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.