Re: Elliptic curves over GF(p)?

[Andreas Enge <andreas.enge@inria.fr>]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 12:44:50AM +1000, Alasdair McAndrew wrote:
> Thanks for that.  I'm still having difficulties, though, trying to work out
> from the manual actually how to initialize an elliptic curve using libpari.

Depending on how familiar you are with programming in pari library mode,
it might be easier to start with a GP script, and potentially use gp2c
to transform it into C code using libpari. Or simply stay with GP...

Otherwise, did you work through the "User's guide to the pari library"
available at
   http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/doc.html ?
In particular, Section 8.3.1 explains how to create a vector of coefficients,
which can be used to initialise a curve as explained in Section 13.1.1.

Andreas