[sage-support] Re: quotient poly ring and field

2009-05-07 Thread Yihsiang Liow
TO W. Stein: Thanks. That was what I needed. SAGE is a great piece of software. I'm using it in some adv math and cryptography classes. TO J. Palmieri: Yes I know you can do that. But you get into minor annoyances (which you can code around) such as E.points(). On 5/4/09, William Stein wrote:

[sage-support] Re: quotient poly ring and field

2009-05-04 Thread William Stein
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 1:07 PM, gtg wrote: > > Hi I'm new to sage. Can you tell me how to construct finite fields > using quotient of poly ring? For instance suppose I want to construct > GF(5^2) using a GF(5) poly ring mod out by x^2 + x + 1 how do I do > that? I can construct the quotient like

[sage-support] Re: quotient poly ring and field

2009-05-04 Thread John H Palmieri
On May 4, 1:07 pm, gtg wrote: > Hi I'm new to sage. Can you tell me how to construct finite fields > using quotient of poly ring? For instance suppose I want to construct > GF(5^2) using a GF(5) poly ring mod out by x^2 + x + 1 how do I do > that? I can construct the quotient like this: > > p = 5