[sage-devel] Re: ambiguous binomial

2009-03-25 Thread Carl Witty
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Dan Drake wrote: > On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 at 03:05PM -0700, Henryk Trappmann wrote: >> I just encountered the ambiguouty: >> >> binomial(-1.0,2) == 1.0 >> binomial(-1,2) == 0 >> >> do we need 2 diferent names? I think the second form is also needed >> somewhere. >> B

[sage-devel] Re: ambiguous binomial

2009-03-25 Thread Dan Drake
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 at 03:05PM -0700, Henryk Trappmann wrote: > I just encountered the ambiguouty: > > binomial(-1.0,2) == 1.0 > binomial(-1,2) == 0 > > do we need 2 diferent names? I think the second form is also needed > somewhere. > But of course one needs the first form also for integers. Th