2014-03-13 12:59 UTC+01:00, Thierry <sage-googlesu...@lma.metelu.net>: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 10:07:23AM +0100, Vincent Delecroix wrote: >> 2014-03-13 9:28 UTC+01:00, Marc Mezzarobba <m...@mezzarobba.net>: >> > Thierry wrote: >> >> - rename RR as RFF (for "real floating field"), so that this >> >> representation is not preferred than the others (especially RDF which >> >> is faster and allows using more libraries, with the same 53 bits of >> >> precision). The current name RR suggests it is the right default >> >> choice. >> > >> > Yes, there seems to be a lot of confusion due to the set of 53-bit >> > floating-point numbers being called "real field". See #11506 for a few >> > examples. >> > >> >> These examples are great ! It would be more natural to have >> sage: Infinity in RFF and NaN in RFF # real floating field >> True >> sage: Infinity in RR and NaN in RR # real numbers >> False > > > Wile we are at it, create RRbar (in the sense of the natural > two-ends compactification): > > sage: Infinity in RRbar > True > sage: NaN in RRbar > False
Nope, too confusing... the bars in QQbar and RRbar have two different meanings. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
