[sage-support] Re: Sage Crashing (Sage 8.0, Windows native binary)

Windows 7 Home Premium Copyright 2009. Apologies for not responding sooner. Thank you again. On Sunday, November 26, 2017 at 8:15:42 PM UTC-8, Keith wrote: > > > >

[sage-support] Powers of polynomials in positive characteristic extremely slow

In Sage 8.0 I find the following unexpected behavior: sage: k. = GF(2)[] sage: K. = k[] sage: f = x^1000 + a*x^500 + b sage: time f^16 CPU times: user 7.61 s, sys: 8 ms, total: 7.62 s Wall time: 7.62 s x^16000 + a^16*x^8000 + b^16 Is it really the case that the exponentiation does not make use of