Dear Forum, I have been working with some elements defined over a large finite field (K=GF(2^20), actually) and I have a few questions.
1) does there exist a "proper" way to obtain a vector representation (any representation is fine) for elements of K over the ground field? I have successfully used the idiom x![1] for x in K, but I suspect that this is more of an implementation detail than what is supposed to be used. 2) In any case ended up working with sets of vectors of GF(2)^20. I would have liked to be able to represent each vector as an integer (this is easy) and to implement the sum of any two of them as a xor between their representatives. I have not been able to find a xor operation being exposed (not even in the cvec package). Am I missing something? [actually, I ended up writing an external program to perform the checks I was interested in] With many thanks and kind regards, lg _______________________________________________ Forum mailing list Forum@mail.gap-system.org http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum
