Re: Bug in nfabsis/Round4

[Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>]

On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 12:11:15PM -0400, Xavier Roblot wrote:
> > ? nfbasis(x^16-42*x^12+560*x^10-1645*x^8+2352*x^6+10290*x^4+10192*x^2+3969)
> >   ***   impossible inverse modulo: Mod(0, 2).
> 
> The bug was due to a possible lost of precision in one of the modular reductions
> performed in nilord2. It is corrected using the following patch (I have also
> updated the CVS version).

Are we going to have an actual test suite, or having the current joke
(one test per function) looks enough?  *At least* it could have been
populated with bug reports...

Or I am missing something, and the bug reports *do* result in changes
to test suite?

Ilya