Change log for Magma V2.12-6 (Released 4/8/2005)

Groups

·Slow times when applying FPGroup to a PC-group have been improved. Problem reported by Mark Stather and Derek Holt.

Matrices

·A bug in RemoveRow has been fixed.

Rings and Fields

·A bug in the printing of precision 1 p-adic field elements has been fixed.

·A bug in IsCoercible into a p-adic ring has been fixed. This caused IsCoercible to generate errors rather than to return false.

·A bug in IsSquare and GCD for polynomials over function fields has been fixed (reported by John Cremona).

·The sub constructor for finite fields now allows more than one generator.

System

·A problem with the password file system with some MAC addresses has been fixed.