By the way, last October I made a patch for NTL which makes NTL's
factoring significantly faster than even MAGMA's in some cases.  I
think that the degree flags < 30 and > 300 for NTL's factoring
(provided my patch went in) needs to be revisited anyway.

On Oct 1, 8:37 am, Robert Bradshaw <rober...@math.washington.edu>
wrote:
> On Sep 30, 2009, at 8:25 PM, William Stein wrote:
>
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> > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Marshall Hampton  
> > <hampto...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> Wow, that's quite disturbing.  Did you make a trac ticket for this?
>
> > I've made this:
>
> >http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7088
>
> > and made it a 4.1.2 blocker, since it a serious bug.  The problem is
> > in the _factor_pari method in Sage.  It's almost certainly a bug in
> > Sage's wrapper of Pari for factoring in the non-monic case.  The
> > solution will be either to fix that (good) or use the ntl wrapper
> > (wimpy).
>
> Wow, it looks like this bug has been around since the very first  
> checkin. I posted a patch.
>
> - Robert
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