Re: [sage-support] Re: Generator of Finite Field

2012-05-29 Thread Martin Albrecht
Hi, it seems I was wrong about this yesterday (Olexandr and I discussed in person yesterday): sage: K.gen? Return a generator of self. All elements x of self are expressed as log_{self.gen()}(p) internally. This generator might differ between different runs or differen

[sage-support] Re: Generator of Finite Field

2012-05-28 Thread P Purkayastha
On Tuesday, May 29, 2012 6:02:07 AM UTC+8, Oleksandr Kazymyrov wrote: > > Hi again, > > A try to use *log* function and got error: > sage: R.=ZZ[] > sage: k.=GF(2^8,modulus=x^8+x^4+x^3+x+1) > sage: b=k.random_element() > sage: b.log(a) > -

[sage-support] Re: Generator of Finite Field

2012-05-28 Thread Oleksandr Kazymyrov
Hi again, A try to use *log* function and got error: sage: R.=ZZ[] sage: k.=GF(2^8,modulus=x^8+x^4+x^3+x+1) sage: b=k.random_element() sage: b.log(a) --- ValueError