[sage-devel] Re: I^(0.5)

2012-02-15 Thread kcrisman
On Feb 15, 8:38 am, Keshav Kini wrote: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 21:07, Stephen Montgomery-Smith > > wrote: > > I have a concern over I^(0.5).  It is plus or minus (1+I)/sqrt(2).  The > > difficulty I have is with the "plus or minus".  It is possible to define the > > positive square root of a

Re: [sage-devel] Re: I^(0.5)

2012-02-15 Thread Burcin Erocal
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:22:32 -0800 (PST) Keshav Kini wrote: > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/12511 is now awaiting > review. Thanks, Robert! Robert's patch now has positive review and is waiting to be merged. Thanks to Robert for the quick fix, Keshav and aapitzsch for their help. Th

Re: [sage-devel] Re: I^(0.5)

2012-02-15 Thread Keshav Kini
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/12511 is now awaiting review. Thanks, Robert! -Keshav Join us in #sagemath on irc.freenode.net ! -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@google

Re: [sage-devel] Re: I^(0.5)

2012-02-15 Thread Robert Bradshaw
Yeah, it has to do with how Pynac and Sage recursively call each other. Certainly a blocker in my book, and it looks like it's been around a while (possibly since the introduction of Pynac, at least since we were able to simplify SR(4)^(1/2)). I hope to have a patch up soon. On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 a

[sage-devel] Re: I^(0.5)

2012-02-15 Thread P Purkayastha
This is really funny! sage: ((-1)**(1/2))**(0.5) None sage: ((-1)**(0.5))**(0.5) 0.707106781186548 + 0.707106781186547*I sage: type(((-1)**(0.5))) sage: type((-1)**(1/2)) sage: type(I) sage: type(I**(1/2)) sage: I**(1/2) sqrt(I) On Wednesday, February 15, 2012 1:58:24 PM UTC+8, Willia