Re: [sage-support] power function with runtime error

2010-04-24 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Apr 23, 2010, at 1:37 AM, bb wrote: Mike Hansen schrieb: On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 11:52 AM, bb wrote: I get a runtime error, but just would expect infinity! Is there something wrong or any explanation? This is because when you do 2^3^4^5 you are computing that number exactly as an int

Re: [sage-support] power function with runtime error

2010-04-23 Thread bb
Mike Hansen schrieb: On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 11:52 AM, bb wrote: I get a runtime error, but just would expect infinity! Is there something wrong or any explanation? This is because when you do 2^3^4^5 you are computing that number exactly as an integer, and that number is definitely n

Re: [sage-support] power function with runtime error

2010-04-19 Thread Mike Hansen
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 11:52 AM, bb wrote: > I get a runtime error, but just would expect infinity! Is there something > wrong or any explanation? This is because when you do 2^3^4^5 you are computing that number exactly as an integer, and that number is definitely not infinity. If you wanted t

Re: [sage-support] power function with runtime error

2010-04-19 Thread bb
bb schrieb: sage: 2^3^4^5 --- RuntimeError Traceback (most recent call last) /home/bb/sage-4.3.5/ in () /home/bb/sage-4.3.5/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sage/rings/integer.so in sage.r

[sage-support] power function with runtime error

2010-04-19 Thread bb
sage: 2^3^4^5 --- RuntimeError Traceback (most recent call last) /home/bb/sage-4.3.5/ in () /home/bb/sage-4.3.5/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sage/rings/integer.so in sage.rings.integer.Inte