On Mar 27, 2008, at 3:47 PM, John Cremona wrote: > > Although Justin's solution certainly works, one might consider adding > a "real_part()" function to the quaternion class. But it would not do > to call the function "real_part" since of course it depends on the > ground field (which in the example is QQ and not RR). > > I am CC'ing sage-devel since this might be worth a ticket, and also to > ask for suggestions as to what the "real part" might be called in > general.
Following John's suggestion, I've created <http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/2712 > for this issue, and attached a patch. Please check it out and add comments, or continue the discussion here. Thanks, Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon at Large Institute for the Absorption of Federal Funds ----------- If it weren't for carbon-14, I wouldn't date at all. ----------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
