Matrices in GF(2^e) where e > 16 should not use the M4RIE library.

[loluwot]

This issue prevents most matrix operations on said matrices due to "OverflowError: Python int too large to convert to C unsigned long".

Component: number theory

Reviewer: Dave Morris

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/32526

[mwhansen]

comment:1

I think this was fixed in commit 72e7cbb.

sage: M = MatrixSpace(GF(2^17), 5, 5)
sage: type(M.random_element())
<class 'sage.matrix.matrix_generic_dense.Matrix_generic_dense'>

Which version were you using?

[DaveWitteMorris]

Reviewer: Dave Morris

[DaveWitteMorris]

comment:4

As pointed out in comment:1 (but not in these words), this is a duplicate of #29818, which was fixed in version 9.2, so the reporter was presumably using version 9.1.

[tscrim]

comment:5

Without more information, I think your supposition is correct.