Re: [sage-support] Order of a cyclic group

2012-01-21 Thread Santanu Sarkar
Thanks for the help. On 21 January 2012 07:27, Maarten Derickx wrote: > Well the way I first tried is as follows: > > age: F.=GF(2)[] > sage: G.=F.quotient(x^6 + x^4 + x^2 + x + 1) > sage: a.multiplicative_order() > --- > Not

Re: [sage-support] Order of a cyclic group

2012-01-20 Thread Maarten Derickx
Well the way I first tried is as follows: age: F.=GF(2)[] sage: G.=F.quotient(x^6 + x^4 + x^2 + x + 1) sage: a.multiplicative_order() --- NotImplementedError Traceback (most recent call last) But it giv

Re: [sage-support] Order of a cyclic group

2012-01-20 Thread Santanu Sarkar
Yes, exactly that we mean. On 19 January 2012 20:13, John Cremona wrote: > On 19 January 2012 15:39, Santanu Sarkar wrote: >> Consider a polynomial f(x) over GF(2)[x]. How is it possible >> to find the order of the cyclic group generated by f(x)? > > What do you mean by the group generated by th

Re: [sage-support] Order of a cyclic group

2012-01-19 Thread John Cremona
On 19 January 2012 15:39, Santanu Sarkar wrote: > Consider a polynomial f(x) over GF(2)[x]. How is it possible > to find the order of the cyclic group generated by f(x)? What do you mean by the group generated by the polynomial? Do you mean the group generated by a root of f (when f is irreducib

[sage-support] Order of a cyclic group

2012-01-19 Thread Santanu Sarkar
Consider a polynomial f(x) over GF(2)[x]. How is it possible to find the order of the cyclic group generated by f(x)? -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, vi