On 2014-09-17, Jonas Jermann <jjerma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> How can I do exact comparison of numbers in AA?
> I noticed that this doesn't work very reliably:
>
> el1 = AA((x^4 - 2238072*x^2 + 44133904).roots()[1][0])
> el2 = (791264*AA(2*cos(pi/8))^2 - 463492).sqrt()
> el1 == el2
>
> ^- This fails for me (resp. never stops)
> [el1-el2 gives "0.?e-15"]

behind the curtains, it seems that PARI is computing. Is there a bug?
(if you press ^C, you see it does something in PARI)

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