On Sat, 03 Feb 2007 05:57:25 -0800, Joel B. Mohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Saturday 03 February 2007 05:09, William Stein wrote: >> That's a genuine bug, since x^maxima(3/4) is not 2. It's now trac #239: >> http://sage.math.washington.edu:9002/sage_trac/ticket/239 > > Is this the same bug? The types involved seem very diverse, but the strange > result appears remarkably similar. > > sage: CF=CyclotomicField(3) > sage: two=CF(2) > sage: two^(1/3) > 1 > sage: me=two^(1/3) > sage: me.parent() > Cyclotomic Field of order 3 and degree 2 There are a number of places throughout the code where various implementors (mostly me) were sloppy about dealing with fractional exponents. I've fixed them for SAGE>=2.1. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
