On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 06:33:52PM -0700, Gregory Bard wrote:
> It seems that the consensus on both Sage-devel and Sage-edu is to go
> with some sort of nth_real_root function. I propose the following,
> which I have tested for evaluation, plotting, differentiation, and
> integration. Sadly, the derivative has a Dirac delta in it, which is
> ... perhaps unavoidable because of the vertical tangency of the
> cuberoot function at x=0. (Naturally, we can remove the asserts once
> testing is completed.
> ---Greg
>
> def nth_real_root( x, n ):
Just 2 cents of outsider feedback since I have not followed the
discussion, and am not knowledgeable on the topic. This names suggests
to me that we look at all the real roots of n (for whatever this
means), and then take the n-th one. So maybe real_nth_root instead?
Cheers,
Nicolas
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http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/
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