> In this case, the docstring needs to be corrected, because the statement
> that "All elements x of self are expressed as log_{self.gen()}(p)
> internally" is not true, right? (Extrapolating from this sentence and my
> two examples led me to make my previous statements.) Probably it is true
> that all elements are expressible as polynomials in x, and perhaps this
> is also the internal representation.
Hi,
It is not. For small extension fields of order < 2^16 the elements are
represented using Zech logs internally, so for these finite fields the
docstring "all elements x of self are expressed as log_{self.gen()}(p)
internally" is true.
Martin
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