[GAP Forum] Generators of the additive group of a finite field

Alexander Hulpke hulpke at me.com
Wed Jul 8 03:49:17 BST 2009


Dear Max Horn,

Tere is very little functionality for additive groups, you probably  
will be much happier to treat them as vector space, if possible.
In this example e.g.
BasisVectors(Basis(GF(9)))
returns additive group generators.

Best,

    Alexander Hulpke

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