Hi Maarten, I would not call this an embarrassing defect. Sage is an open source > project written by volunteers that do not have an unlimited amount of time. > If something is not implemented this just means no one had the time yet to > do this.
I did not intend to insult the Sage developer community by that. If it did, I am sorry. I think is_irreducible() method should be one of basic repertoire for multi-variate polynomial arithmetic just as much as in univariate case, and I was surprised that Sage lacks it. Sage is now a mature system and has a long history. Collectively there was time, but perhaps no one was so interested in it to implement it by himself or herself If no one would work on the ticket, perhaps I would do it. That was usually the case for most of the tickets I created :-) -- 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.
