Hello,
I am facing the error message "Error, (in factors) Bad inputs to diophant." raised by a call to
factors(p, {I, sqrt(3)})
for a polynomial p in 7 variables (with integer coefficients). Unfortunately, the error is not reproducible: After some thousand calls to factors (with different polynomials) this error suddenly occurs.
- Interestingly, it does not depend on the actual polynomial, but rather on the number of calls to factors. That means if I change the order of the calls, the error occurs at a different polynomial (i.e. the one that caused the error earlier will pass just fine).
- If I call factors immediately after the error occured using the same arguments, strangely enough no error occurs.
- Without a splitting field, that is factors(p), the error does never show up.
Unfortunately I could not find any documentation of this error message and can not make any sense out of the weird circumstances under which it occurs. This is also why I could not yet construct a setup that will reliably reproduce the error.
I hope that someone can tell under which circumstances this error message is produced and what might be its cause.
Thank you very much,
ErikP
