Re: weird factor() output

[Karim BELABAS <Karim.Belabas@math.u-psud.fr>]

On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Igor Schein wrote:
> ? factor(x-I)
>
> [x - #<16382> 1]
>
> Looks like pari is confused about I being complex.

An interface bug in factornf (= polfnf): when the input was a perfect power,
it returned a result with lifted coefficients (as opposed to t_POLMOD). The
latter were not translated back to human readable form by factor().
[ I introduced the problem recently when I rewrote the polynomial factorizers
(in char. 0) around van Hoeij's method ]

    Karim.
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