On 2/2/11 9:48 PM, Dan Drake wrote:
This is slightly annoying and unexpected:sage: 2^(1.5) 2.82842712474619 sage: int(2)^(1.5) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- TypeError Traceback (most recent call last) /home/drake/research/motzkin_plateau/<ipython console> in<module>() TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for ** or pow(): 'int' and 'sage.rings.real_mpfr.RealLiteral' This surprised me when I had something like this: [n^(1.5) for n in range(5)] It's trivial to work around this, with ZZ(n) or with [0..4] or whatever, but it was unexpected. Is this a bug? Does it deserve a trac ticket, or a smarter user?
It's int(2)**(1.5). The ** is the exponentiation operator in python. We just override the xor operator (^) to also be exponentiation for Sage integers.
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