ratpoints

Description

Michael Stoll’s program which searches for rational points on hyperelliptic curves.

NOTE: the ratpoints package has been assimilated by PARI/GP. Therefore, this package (as Sage package) is deprecated. In the future, it will be removed from Sage.

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Dependencies

  • GMP/MPIR

  • (GNU) patch

Special Update/Build Instructions

Note on SSE2 instructions

  • On several architectures, the SSE2 instructions used by ratpoints cause compiler errors. In the case that ratpoints fails to build with SSE2 instructions enabled, the build is repeated with SSE2 disabled.