> From: pong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 9:42 PM > Subject: Re: Bug in ploting odd roots? > To: William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Hi William, > > I have a similar problem and found this old post. Is there a less > complicated solution by now?
As far as I am aware, there is not. The issue is that one would like a^x to be continuous with respect to x, and so the natural branch to choose doesn't take real values at odd-denominator rational numbers for negative a. > By the way, why the function RDF in capitol letters? Isn't it the > convention of SAGE that function names are in lower case? It's not a function, RDF is a parent. RDF(a) creates a new RDF element out of a. sage: RDF Real Double Field sage: a = RDF(5) sage: a.parent() Real Double Field - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
