It's from the days before sqrt accepted a precision parameter. Should almost certainly be deprecated. Also, one has the oddness that
sage: numerical_sqrt(3) sqrt(3) http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/5404 - Robert On Feb 28, 2009, at 1:06 AM, Rolandb wrote: > > Hi, what is the use of this function? It seems equivalent to sqrt. > Roland > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
