Ok, well in the mean time I will force the field to be QQ on my hand.
But I think a long end solution would be to do some test on the root
system type to decide what is the best field.

Cheers

Viviane

2012/5/8 Christian Stump <christian.st...@gmail.com>:
> Hi Viviane,
>
>> This type of thing just broke my entire patch on multivariate
>> polynomials. I had to fix it by changing the field to ZZ or QQ but I
>> wonder why the default field has been changed...
>
> sorry for that!
>
> the reason is that I implemented non-crystallographic root systems and
> reflection groups. That's why I changed the default ring to be the
> universal cyclotomics (which is the smallest field containing the
> integers and all roots of unity). But I agree that in the
> crystallographic types (where everything works over the integers), we
> still should have things working over ZZ.
>
> This patch is still very much under construction, so I expect myself
> to make tons of further changes. I will hopefully find some time tod
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