John Cremona wrote: > However pedantic you are it is very hard indeed to justify this for a > package which is intended for a wide class of users: > > sage: a = 300/100 > sage: a > 3 > sage: a in ZZ > True > sage: a.is_prime() > False
Yes, but having a.is_prime() return True may break generic code written for arbitrary commutative rings that needs to specialize gracefully to fields. This looks less likely with Vincent's examples, though factor() may be a borderline case. -- Marc -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
