> This is ridiculous. If we made a==b true only if parent(a) == > parent(b), we would get nonstop complaints and confusion from users, > and would be doing something different and massively more *pedantic* > than every other math software system I have ever used. >
Indeed, even Python agrees: Python 3.0 (r30:67503, Jan 23 2009, 04:39:45) [GCC 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu3)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import fractions >>> fractions.Fraction(1) Fraction(1, 1) >>> fractions.Fraction(1) == 1 True >>> -cc --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
