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Square roots and nth roots in number fields #1601

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fredrik-johansson opened this issue Nov 11, 2023 · 1 comment
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Square roots and nth roots in number fields #1601

fredrik-johansson opened this issue Nov 11, 2023 · 1 comment
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antic feature request number fields and algebraic numbers

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There is a WIP implementation of square roots in flintlib/antic#51 which apparently needs some more work.
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The best thing to do might just be to implement polynomial factorization over $\mathbb{Q}(a)$ with the standard algorithm. Then one can just compute nth roots by factoring $x^n-c$.

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