On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 8:27 AM, Nicolas M. Thiery <nicolas.thi...@u-psud.fr> wrote: > 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?
+1 > > Cheers, > Nicolas > -- > Nicolas M. Thiéry "Isil" <nthi...@users.sf.net> > http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/ > > -- > 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. -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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.
