Re: Galois field

2004-12-03 Thread Nick Craig-Wood
Mikael Olofsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At our department we use Magma (http://magma.maths.usyd.edu.au/) > for finite field arithmetic and error control codes. Magma has > nothing to do with Python, instead it is a very mature tool of its > own, mainly for descrete math. It knows what a pe

Re: Galois field

2004-12-03 Thread Mikael Olofsson
Roie Kerstein wrote: Thank you very much! However, I lack two important things in the packages introduced there: 1. There is only element arithmetic - no polynomials, in which I have need. 2. there is support only for fields of order 2^p, while I need fields of prime order. You still helped me, as

Re: Galois field

2004-12-03 Thread Roie Kerstein
Mikael Olofsson wrote: > Googling for > > python "finite field" > > reveals among other things the URLs > > http://www.hpcf.upr.edu/~humberto/software/fields/ > http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~emin/source_code/py_ecc/ > Thank you very much! However, I lack two important things in the packages i

Re: Galois field

2004-12-03 Thread Roie Kerstein
Terry Reedy wrote: > Googling python 'galois fields' gives over 500 hits, the most recent being > your identical question on catalog-sig.  Have you looked at them? Yes. Nothing there is a module. only discussions. :( -- Best regards Roie Kerstein -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyt

Re: Galois field

2004-12-03 Thread Mikael Olofsson
Roie Kerstein wrote: I am looking for a python package that deals with galois fields. Does anybody know where can I find it? Googling for python "finite field" reveals among other things the URLs http://www.hpcf.upr.edu/~humberto/software/fields/ http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~emin/source_c

Re: Galois field

2004-12-02 Thread Terry Reedy
"Roie Kerstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >I am looking for a python package that deals with galois fields. > > Does anybody know where can I find it? Googling python 'galois fields' gives over 500 hits, the most recent being your identical question on catalog-

Galois field

2004-12-02 Thread Roie Kerstein
I am looking for a python package that deals with galois fields. Does anybody know where can I find it? Thank in advance -- Best regards Roie Kerstein -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list