Re: galoisinit() bug

[Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 07:22:49PM -0400, Igor Schein wrote:
> On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 12:21:30AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 09:11:23PM -0400, Igor Schein wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > ? galoisinit(x^4+272*x^3+40256*x^2+1740800*x+25397248);
> > >   ***   prime too small in fixedfield.
> > > 
> > > It was already broken in 2.2.4.
> > ... and even in 2.2.0.
> 
> Not according to this:
> 
>                     GP/PARI CALCULATOR Version 2.2.0 (alpha)

You are right, I meant 2.2.1, with this change:
---
revision 1.62
date: 2001/09/24 14:14:59;  author: bill;  state: Exp;  lines: +95 -71
Better strategy for galoisfixedfield
More argument checking for galoisfixedfield
---
Note that it was working only by luck before this date.

Cheers,
Bill.