On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 3:12 PM, John Cremona wrote:
> I wanted to work in the group PGL(2,q), and got off to a good start:
>
>
> sage: G = PGL(2,13)
> sage: G.order().factor()
> 2^3 * 3 * 7 * 13
> sage: G.order() == 13*(13^2-1)
> True
>
> but I could not create elements of G, which seemed to thin
I wanted to work in the group PGL(2,q), and got off to a good start:
sage: G = PGL(2,13)
sage: G.order().factor()
2^3 * 3 * 7 * 13
sage: G.order() == 13*(13^2-1)
True
but I could not create elements of G, which seemed to think they were
permutations!
sage: G.identity()
()
sage: G.an_element()
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