Re: [sage-devel] Re: Representation of finite field elements

2011-12-13 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2011-12-12 15:27, Johan S. R. Nielsen wrote: > That is, change default from repr="poly" to repr="log"? -1. log is computationally difficult if the field gets large. And having a different default for small and large finite fields would only be confusing. Also, "poly" clearly shows elements of

[sage-devel] Re: Representation of finite field elements

2011-12-13 Thread Johan S. R. Nielsen
Wow, this opened up a can of worms I hadn't expected, but reading your comments, I really agree. > When I was working on similar issues for printing real numbers (i.e., > whether to truncate digits, etc.), Carl Witty brought up a very good > point. Printing representation options should be global

[sage-devel] Re: Representation of finite field elements

2011-12-12 Thread Jason Grout
On 12/12/11 8:48 AM, Jason Grout wrote: When I was working on similar issues for printing real numbers (i.e., whether to truncate digits, etc.), Carl Witty brought up a very good point. Just to follow up, Carl Witty's point is here: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7682#comment:32 I

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Representation of finite field elements

2011-12-12 Thread David Roe
>> So now I have hacked together a patch that works as I will it, both in >> the shell and notebook. I think it is a bug that the latex >> representation currently ignores the repr-value of the finite field. >> What do you other say? Agreed: latex should respect the repr-value. >> And as long as

[sage-devel] Re: Representation of finite field elements

2011-12-12 Thread Jason Grout
On 12/12/11 8:27 AM, Johan S. R. Nielsen wrote: On Dec 12, 11:35 am, javier wrote: Hi Johan, do you have the "typeset" box checked in your notebook? If so, then things are displayed using the latex method instead of the repr one. Cheers, Javier OF COURSE! Thanks for telling me. I would have

[sage-devel] Re: Representation of finite field elements

2011-12-12 Thread Johan S. R. Nielsen
On Dec 12, 11:35 am, javier wrote: > Hi Johan, > > do you have the "typeset" box checked in your notebook? > If so, then things are displayed using the latex method > instead of the repr one. > > Cheers, > Javier OF COURSE! Thanks for telling me. I would have thought that I had enough Sage-experi

[sage-devel] Re: Representation of finite field elements

2011-12-12 Thread javier
Hi Johan, do you have the "typeset" box checked in your notebook? If so, then things are displayed using the latex method instead of the repr one. Cheers, Javier -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+u