On Jun 9, 2007, at 8:59 PM, Jason Grout wrote:
> > William Stein wrote: >> On 6/9/07, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I'm trying to do some symbolic calculations in a field, say GF >>> (3). Is >>> there a proper way to do this different than my example below? The >>> approach below of using a fraction field of a polynomial ring >>> containing my variables over the field I'm working in seems to work >>> mostly, but there are some errors. Also, coerce(GF(3),1/2) doesn't >>> seem to work--shouldn't it? GF(3)(1/2) works fine. >> >> Yes. You've found a bug. That the following simple example doesn't >> work is a bug in Martin Albrecht's new incredibly fast >> multivariate polynomial arithmetic code: >> >> sage: R.<x,y,z> = GF(3)[] >> sage: R(1/2) >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> .... >> TypeError: Cannot convert sage.rings.integer_mod.IntegerMod_int to >> sage.rings.rational.Rational >> >> I'm sure Martin will fix it very soon. > > I tried filing a bug report (I figured that would be the appropriate > thing to do at this point). Does the trac software allow someone like > me to login and post a bug report? Or is there some other way that > things like this are recorded and tracked? Write William directly and ask for an account. This is a necessary annoyance to avoid spam... Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large Institute for the Absorption of Federal Funds -------- Some people have a mental horizon of radius zero, and call it their point of view. -- David Hilbert -------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
