I will try to fasten the modular arithmetic. For the problem with the negative time i have started following computation:
Zeit=cputime() for i in range(100000): g=maxima('193^99484') Ergebnis=cputime(Zeit) print Ergebnis and get following intressting result: 130.62 262.78 393.85 524.81 656.77 788.77 917.66 1046.38 1176.15 1307.78 1439.65 1571.42 1701.97 1832.77 1962.88 2093.95 -2071.387296 -1940.027296 -1808.707296 -1677.137296 -1543.907296 -1410.187296 -1279.297296 -1146.907296 -1016.587296 -885.917296 -752.657296 -620.757296 -489.627296 -358.087296 -224.227296 -94.367296 36.762704 and so on, so the sign of the time changes about around every 2100 seconds. Is this a problem of my computer or of the cputime command? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---