[sage-devel] Re: Extremely large integers and Sage's interface with GAP

2014-06-03 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Hello all, Let me just to explain what happens in GAP. The gap.ini file (http://www.gap-system.org/Manuals/doc/ref/chap3.html#X7FD66F977A3B02DF), which may be created with `WriteGapIniFile` and then adjusted accordingly to user preferences, has the following lines: ## Maximal bit length of i

[sage-devel] Re: Extremely large integers and Sage's interface with GAP

2014-05-31 Thread Volker Braun
IMHO: use gap.Lucas(1,-1,10), or even better libgap.Lucas(1,-1,10). Function call notation is more readable than eval calls. Here is the libgap fix for huge ints (needs review): http://trac.sagemath.org/16419 On Saturday, May 31, 2014 5:35:21 PM UTC+1, Travis Scrimshaw wrote: > > First