I ran exactly into this some time ago while sanity-checking some high-precision MPFR computations with the results of Wolfram Alpha (which also wraps real literals into its own, I presume exact, representation).
On 3 October 2014 11:42, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > Real literals are wrapped in their own type on the Sage command line, they > are not hardware-floats (like in plain Python): > > sage: 0.001 > 0.00100000000000000 > sage: type(_) > <type 'sage.rings.real_mpfr.RealLiteral'> > I am curious, why the extra zeroes in that representation in the second line? -- 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.
