Re: primitive roots modulo p

[David Bateman]

Check the galois field stuff in octave-forge. If you have octave-forge
installed, type 

comms info "galois"

in octave to read the manual on this package...

D.

According to Bart Vandewoestyne <address@hidden> (on 07/30/04):
> Hello,
> 
> I am in the need of a function that gives me *all* primitive roots
> modulo a certain prime.  After some googling, I've found that
> Mathematica has a PrimitiveRoot[n] function...  Is there an
> Octave-analogue out there somewhere?
> 
> If not, can anybody point me to a reference which lists an efficient
> algorithm to find all primitive roots modulo a certain prime so I can
> try to implement it myself (and share it with the community afterwards)?
> 
> Regards,
> Bart
> 
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