OK, I just remembered it as having been quite recent, and the person asking said he was using 6.1.1 so I (wrongly) assumed that the construction did not work in 6.1.1. Only trying to help.
John On 18 May 2014 21:22, leif <not.rea...@online.de> wrote: > leif wrote: > >> John Cremona wrote: >> >>> You need 6.2. The splitting field functionality was only added since >>> 6.1.1: >>> >> ? >> >> >> sage: sage: R.<x> = PolynomialRing(QQ) >> sage: sage: K.<a> = NumberField(x^3 + 2) >> sage: sage: S.<t> = PolynomialRing(K) >> sage: sage: L.<b> = (t^2 - a).splitting_field() >> sage: sage: L >> Number Field in b with defining polynomial t^6 + 2 >> sage: version() >> 'Sage Version 6.1.1, Release Date: 2014-02-04' >> sage: >> >> Or did I just "mess it up" somehow? >> > > P.S.: Doesn't look like I did: > > > sage: version() > 'Sage Version 6.1.1, Release Date: 2014-02-04' > sage: !git branch -vv > * master 8be52e6 [origin/master] Updated Sage version to 6.1.1 > sage: !git status > # On branch master > nothing to commit, working directory clean > sage: > > > > -leif > > -- > () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign > /\ Help Cure HTML E-Mail > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-support" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
