Overview: A collection of a few functions that will be handy in many cases.
Perhaps the most interesting is the funcion randomKRationalPoint, which for a finite ground field K of moderate size, will find a K-rational points on a positive dimensional projective algebraic set X under the asumption that the degree of X is small compared to the char K.
Setup:
This package requires Macaulay2 version 1.4 or newer.
Install this Package by doing
installPackage("extrasForTheKernel")