Re: Faster exponentiation in some extensions of finite fields of small characteristics

[Peter Bruin <P.J.Bruin@math.leidenuniv.nl>]

Hello Jean-Pierre,

> May I ask why you reverse the array of coeffs when packing it into an
> integer in the kron_pack_Flx_spec functions you added?
> Do the fromdigits function reverse it another time?

Yes, the reason is the existing convention for fromdigits.  I did not
want to write another copy of fromdigits with the only difference being
the order of the digits.  I did not try to to find out whether this
would give a noticeable speed improvement.

Best wishes,

Peter