Karim BELABAS on Fri, 4 Jul 2003 21:47:08 +0200 (MEST)


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Re: polgalois() bug 

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Igor Schein wrote:
> some time ago Galois group notation slightly changed.  It's probably
> due to this fact that I am seeing this incorrect result in CVS and
> several previous alpha releases:
>
> ? polgalois(x^6-9*x^4+18*x^2-6)==polgalois(x^6-3*x^4+3)
> 1

Indeed a typo  [ confusion between group order and degree of defining
polynomial ].

    Karim.
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