# module 'zmod' # Compute properties of mathematical "fields" formed by taking # Z/n (the whole numbers modulo some whole number n) and an # irreducible polynomial (i.e., a polynomial with only complex zeros), # e.g., Z/5 and X**2 + 2. # # The field is formed by taking all possible linear combinations of # a set of d base vectors (where d is the degree of the polynomial). # # Note that this procedure doesn't yield a field for all combinations # of n and p: it may well be that some numbers have more than one # inverse and others have none. This is what we check. # # Remember that a field is a ring where each element has an inverse. # A ring has commutative addition and multiplication, a zero and a one: # 0*x = x*0 = 0, 0+x = x+0 = x, 1*x = x*1 = x. Also, the distributive # property holds: a*(b+c) = a*b + b*c. # (XXX I forget if this is an axiom or follows from the rules.) import poly # Example N and polynomial N = 5 P = poly.plus(poly.one(0, 2), poly.one(2, 1)) # 2 + x**2 # Return x modulo y. Returns >= 0 even if x < 0. def mod(x, y): return divmod(x, y)[1] # Normalize a polynomial modulo n and modulo p. def norm(a, n, p): a = poly.modulo(a, p) a = a[:] for i in range(len(a)): a[i] = mod(a[i], n) a = poly.normalize(a) return a # Make a list of all n^d elements of the proposed field. def make_all(mat): all = [] for row in mat: for a in row: all.append(a) return all def make_elements(n, d): if d == 0: return [poly.one(0, 0)] sub = make_elements(n, d-1) all = [] for a in sub: for i in range(n): all.append(poly.plus(a, poly.one(d-1, i))) return all def make_inv(all, n, p): x = poly.one(1, 1) inv = [] for a in all: inv.append(norm(poly.times(a, x), n, p)) return inv def checkfield(n, p): all = make_elements(n, len(p)-1) inv = make_inv(all, n, p) all1 = all[:] inv1 = inv[:] all1.sort() inv1.sort() if all1 == inv1: print 'BINGO!' else: print 'Sorry:', n, p print all print inv def rj(s, width): if type(s) <> type(''): s = `s` n = len(s) if n >= width: return s return ' '*(width - n) + s def lj(s, width): if type(s) <> type(''): s = `s` n = len(s) if n >= width: return s return s + ' '*(width - n)