Re: [sage-devel] Re: norm of a complex number

2010-04-29 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Johan, 2010/4/30 Johan Grönqvist : > I tried following the guides, but it is my first attempt at using both > mercurial and trac, so I may well have missed something. I have looked over the patch. It is very good. I'm reviewing it now to determine what more to add to your patch so as to pre

Re: [sage-devel] Re: norm of a complex number

2010-04-27 Thread Gonzalo Tornaria
2010/4/27 Johan Grönqvist : > The definition of norm on vectors is consistent with definitions of norm > according to wikipedia [0] and the springer encyclopedia of mathematics [1], > and (I believe) any book I have ever used. Those did not even mention that > there is an alternative definition of

Re: [sage-devel] Re: norm of a complex number

2010-04-27 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Johan, 2010/4/27 Johan Grönqvist : > My suggestion is to change the definition of norm on complex numbers. > > If that is not changed, I think that the docstring should clearly state that > sage deviates from the definitions of norm used by wikipedia, springer, > mathematica, maple and matla