Re: [sage-support] Using PGL matrix groups

2011-08-18 Thread David Joyner
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

[sage-support] Using PGL matrix groups

2011-08-18 Thread John Cremona
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() (