On Saturday 30 June 2007 07:11, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > +1 for little endian-ness. As well as consistency, I think big endian > only makes sense for fixed size words. Otherwise you have to know how > large the number is to know what each digit represents, and it seems > odd to me to, say, subtract and have the result of the 5th and 7th > digits be placed in the 2nd digit because of cancelation...
David convinced me with the list-iteration argument, though even if I wasn't convinced it seems clear what most people want. I have uploaded a release candidate patch to http://www.sagemath.org:9002/sage_trac/ticket/397 Martin -- name: Martin Albrecht _pgp: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8EF0DC99 _www: http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~malb _jab: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
