[SciPy-User] library for GF(2) Galois Fields

[Ryan Nelson]

You might want to look at Sage:
http://www.sagemath.org/doc/reference/rings_standard/sage/rings/finite_rings/constructor.html
Sage itself is very large, but SageMathCloud is a convenient (free) way to
test things out:
https://cloud.sagemath.com/
Ryan

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Jason Sachs <jmsachs at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there any Python library that can deal with Galois fields,
> specifically the binary GF(2)? This comes up a lot in communications
> theory and for linear-feedback shift registers. I would really like to
> use a library that has things like arithmetic and matrix operations.
> MATLAB offers this in their Communications Toolbox
> http://www.mathworks.com/help/comm/galois-field-computations.html
>
> I have a rudimentary library for some arithmetic that I've
> open-sourced (https://bitbucket.org/jason_s/libgf2), but it's not
> vectorized and it's really not up to the standard of numpy/scipy I
> think.
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