Hello all, I stumbled onto something weird while doing modular arithmetic: say you do in Sage 8.0
a = Zmod(6)(4) pow(a, 1, k) the result is always a itself, which prints as 4. However, a**1 % k gives what I would expect (perform reduction when k divides 6, raises an error when it doesn't) – and the doc says that pow(a, b, c) should be equivalent to a**b % c. I find pow's silent behavior quite unsettling, is there some good reason that I'm missing to implement it that way? Have a very nice day, Gabriel Chênevert -- 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.
