On the Knuth semi-fields.
Elliptic curves with CM unveil a new phenomenon in the theory of large algebraic fields. Rather than drawing a line between and or and they give an example where the line goes beween and and another one where the line goes between and .
Let Fq denote the finite field of q elements. O. Ahmadi and A. Menezes have recently considered the question about the possible number of elements with zero trace in polynomial bases of F2n over F2. Here we show that the Weil bound implies that there is such a basis with n + O(log n) zero-trace elements.