On Thursday, March 22, 2012 2:44:43 PM UTC-7, William wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Kenneth A. Ribet wrote: > > > > Consider this short sage transcript: > > > > sage: E=EllipticCurve(GF(3),[1,1]) > > sage: for i in range(3): > > ... print i,E.order(extension_degree=i) > > 0 4 > > 1 4 > > 2 16 > > > > Sage seem to think that E has 4 points over the field with 1 element. > Was > > this intended? > > > > When i=0, I would rather get an error message, e.g., Sage should I > think raise a ValueError. I.e., I don't think that there is an > extension of "degree 0". Do you agree? >
Yes, I'm afraid that there is no extension of degree 0. I agree! Ken -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
