diff --git a/src/constants.rs b/src/constants.rs
index a624c6a..4c5176d 100644
--- a/src/constants.rs
+++ b/src/constants.rs
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 
 use field::FieldElement;
 use curve::PreComputedPoint;
+use curve::CompressedPoint;
 
 pub const d: FieldElement       = FieldElement([
     -10913610,  13857413, -15372611,   6949391,    114729,
@@ -54,6 +55,16 @@ pub const HALF_Q_MINUS_1_BYTES: [u8; 32] = [ // halfQMinus1Bytes
     0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff,
     0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0x3f, ];
 
+/// Basepoint has y = 4/5.
+///
+/// Generated with Sage: these are the bytes of 4/5 in 𝔽_p.  The
+/// sign bit is 0 since the basepoint has x chosen to be positive.
+pub const BASE_CMPRSSD: CompressedPoint =
+    CompressedPoint([0x58, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66,
+                     0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66,
+                     0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66,
+                     0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66]);
+
 pub const bi: [PreComputedPoint; 8] = [
     PreComputedPoint{
                 y_plus_x:  FieldElement([25967493, -14356035, 29566456, 3660896, -12694345, 4014787, 27544626, -11754271, -6079156, 2047605]),
diff --git a/src/curve.rs b/src/curve.rs
index 1ce690d..8af03a5 100644
--- a/src/curve.rs
+++ b/src/curve.rs
@@ -821,19 +821,10 @@ mod test {
     use field::FieldElement;
     use scalar::Scalar;
     use constants;
+    use constants::BASE_CMPRSSD;
     use super::*;
     use super::select_precomputed_point;
 
-    /// Basepoint has y = 4/5.
-    ///
-    /// Generated with Sage: these are the bytes of 4/5 in 𝔽_p.  The
-    /// sign bit is 0 since the basepoint has x chosen to be positive.
-    static BASE_CMPRSSD: CompressedPoint =
-        CompressedPoint([0x58, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66,
-                         0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66,
-                         0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66,
-                         0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66]);
-
     /// X coordinate of the basepoint.
     /// = 15112221349535400772501151409588531511454012693041857206046113283949847762202
     static BASE_X_COORD_BYTES: [u8; 32] =