On Tuesday, July 19, 2016 at 8:46:36 PM UTC+2, John Cremona wrote: > > On 19 July 2016 at 19:37, saad khalid <saad...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > > 50 > > > > > > Why won't it factor it? > > Because your number is in the symbolic ring: > > sage: n = SR(50) > sage: factor(n) > 50 >
Yes, and because the symbolic factor() converts the argument to a polynomial ring element of a ring which doesn't do integer factorisation. I consider this a bug of the symbolic factor(). https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/21067 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
