is 4^(-2) (use various kinds of integers) integer rational float? ditto for 5^(-2) ?
Seems to me that the presence of python integers is an inconsistency waiting to appear, and the only proper use of python ints is as a sage integer which happens to be, at the moment, small in magnitude. Lisp does this right, with fixnums automatically promoted to bignums if they get too big. Coercion from rational to integer happens if the rational has a denominator of 1. There are lots more of these, e.g complex with imag part zero etc. Do you want these all to be equal.... 1+0*i, 1/1, 1, int(1)? 1.0 1.0d0? maybe. RJF On Sep 5, 6:52 am, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: > this is now #11779 -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
