[sage-devel] Re: [sage-support] Re: 3 == pi

2008-06-04 Thread Dan Christensen
"William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sage Enhancement Proposal: Change comparisons that involve > elements of the symbolic ring to return True or False if both sides > of the symbolic comparison are constants and the comparison can > be definitely determined. I'm not sure what symbolic

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-support] Re: 3 == pi

2008-05-16 Thread John Cremona
We are certainly going to cause confusion if we don't implement this symbolic simplification suggestion (+1): sage: y=x-x sage: y 0 sage: y==0 0 == 0 sage: 0==0 True sage: i.e. not all 0's ae the same. Now, I can understand why that is the case (different rings) but it is not going to help begi

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-support] Re: 3 == pi

2008-05-15 Thread boothby
On Thu, 15 May 2008, William Stein wrote: > > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:42 PM, John H Palmieri > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >> On May 15, 9:56 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:48 PM, John H Palmieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-support] Re: 3 == pi

2008-05-15 Thread William Stein
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:42 PM, John H Palmieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On May 15, 9:56 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:48 PM, John H Palmieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >> > Is this a bug? >> >> > sage: 3 == pi >> > 3 == pi >> > sa