Looking in rings/complex_number.pyx, it looks like it a simple lex ordering. I would bet that this is because people would be annoyed that you get an exception if you tried to sort a list of complex numbers, even though you can't. :)
--Christopher On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:22, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, January 25, 2012 8:58:15 AM UTC-8, Nils Bruin wrote: >> >> sage: bool(37 +i < 37 -i) >> False >> > > False meaning that Sage cannot affirm that it is true; IMHO the correct > answer. > > >> sage: bool(37 +i > 37 -i) >> True >> > > BUG > > > -- > 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 > -- 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
