I've just installed the 2.8.3 binary on Mac OS X and am trying to access
worksheets made under a previous version of sage, before the change from
user root to admin. I have a working admin account with this version of
sage, but the worksheets owned by root don't show up anywhere. And when
I try
If I understand you correctly you want to think of your elements as
belonging to a 5-dimensional vector space (or module rather) over
GF(2)[x], while they are being represented as elements of k[x] where k
is a 5-dimensional extension of GF(2).
It's a common problem: mathematically, adjoining the
