Hi Neil We wrote
>> This gives the same results as Python's Fraction, except for your >> example [6]. There, it gives the Fraction(0) you ask for. >> >> If the smart mathematicians and computer scientists that wrote gp/pari >> get the same answers, it suggests to me that improvement would be >> hard. > That's because these are just floating point numbers. These are not being > processed symbolically. Wolfram Alpha gives all three roots, including the > real root. I've not used Wolfram Alpha, nor I think have many people on this list. Please copy and paste the input and output from Alpha, so we can see for ourselves (and so there's a record on this list). If anyone has time and ready access, it would help to know what https://www.sympy.org/en/index.html does with this. Perhaps your innocent request conceals a request for symbolic handling of simple algebraic numbers. -- best regards Jonathan _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
