On Saturday, June 9, 2018 at 9:54:03 AM UTC+2, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > > It should stay in the same ring, but what should the result be? I > personally would expect (1 // x) == 0 for Laurent polynomials because > that extends the // operation (Euclidean division) of ordinary > polynomials.
But thats the thing about //, it is not natural wrt. embedding in a larger ring. The whole point is that it throws away information, so you cannot expect the diagram to commute: sage: ZZ(1) // ZZ(2) 0 sage: QQ(1) // QQ(2) 1/2 -- 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.
