Re: Proposed elldata database at the PARI workshop

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

On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 11:48:44PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 01:24:30AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 03:02:42PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > > > If I'm allowed to add one more wishlist item: a function ellgens(E),
> > > > returning the generators of the rational elliptic curve E.  This
> > > > shouldn't be too hard to implement using ellidentify() and then looking
> > > > up the generators of the curbe.
> > > > 
> > > > Hypothetical example:
> > > > gp> E = ellinit("9744C2");
> > > > gp> ellgens(E)
> > > > %40 = [[-11, 14], [-10, 18]]
> 
> Done. Please find a new, non-cumulative, patch that allow to do the
> above: (with parisize >=8000000).
> 
> ? E = ellinit("9744C2");
> ? ellgens(E)
> %2 = [[-11, 14], [-10, 18]]
> 
> but it is quite inefficient since that do a double-look up, so you can
> do instead: 
> ? ellgens("9744C2")
> %2 = [[-11, 14], [-10, 18]]

Hello PARI-dev,
I have renamed ellgens to ellgenerators and removed the feature above 
because returning the generators without the curve coefficients was 
meaningless. If you need it, use ellsearch directly which return all the
needed data.

Cheers,
Bill.