Fair enough. :) --Christopher
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:46, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Christopher Swenson > <ch...@caswenson.com> wrote: > > 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. :) > > The set of complex numbers a+b*i can be endowed with an ordering, > e.g,. by virtue of the isomorphism with R^2 got by fixing the basis > 1,i. There is just no ordering that also preserves the algebraic > structure. I don't see why this causes people to go so batshit > insane. > > -- William > > > > > --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 > > > > -- > William Stein > Professor of Mathematics > University of Washington > http://wstein.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 > -- 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
