On Aug 16, 4:40 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Dr. David Kirkby
> > In contrast, it seems sympow is not used by many people. The fact there are
> > no bug reports of it not working on the public servers shows how little it
> > is used. (If someone actually tried to run many of the examples, they will
> > find they don't work).
>
> There is 1 "example" -- the modular degree function -- that is 1000
> times more important than the rest. Here's me *using* sympow:
>
> sage: E = EllipticCurve('5077a'); E
> Elliptic Curve defined by y^2 + y = x^3 - 7*x + 6 over Rational Field
> sage: E.modular_degree()
> 1984
>
> This modular_degree function is the only function in sympow that
> people are likely to care about. But it is not just a tiny trivial
> function that uses only 1% of sympow (it's a major piece of
> functionality).
As far as I can tell, this is exactly the kind of thing that's broken
on Solaris on x86. See
<http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9703#comment:5>
--
John
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