It seems Maxima does this by default. Any way to disable it? On Monday, 11 June 2012 17:47:09 UTC-7, Eviatar wrote: > > solve has inconsistent behaviour when using exact numerical > representations of numbers. > > For example: > > sage: solve(sin(x) == 0.5, x) > [x == 1/6*pi] > sage: arcsin(0.5) > 0.523598775598299 > > sage: solve(log(x) == 0.5, x) > [x == sqrt(e)] > sage: e^0.5 > 1.64872127070013 > > Shouldn't this be consistent? It seems to me that returning approximations > makes more sense, because that's what all the functions do. >
On Monday, 11 June 2012 17:47:09 UTC-7, Eviatar wrote: > > solve has inconsistent behaviour when using exact numerical > representations of numbers. > > For example: > > sage: solve(sin(x) == 0.5, x) > [x == 1/6*pi] > sage: arcsin(0.5) > 0.523598775598299 > > sage: solve(log(x) == 0.5, x) > [x == sqrt(e)] > sage: e^0.5 > 1.64872127070013 > > Shouldn't this be consistent? It seems to me that returning approximations > makes more sense, because that's what all the functions do. > -- 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
