Re: chinese([])

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

* Max Alekseyev [2015-11-11 23:28]:
> Is there any reason why chinese([]) returns 1?

History... The underlying routine started out as a generic product
before being adapted to associative operators which could benefit from
divide&conquer approach.

Since empty product := 1, it remained that way for the general case as
well.

> I would rather argue that it should return Mod(0,1).
> First, it's t_INTMOD as any other chinese(...) outputl; and second, it
> includes all integers as they all reside in every residue class from the
> empty vector [].

Fixed in master. Thanks for pointing that out !

    K.B.
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