Currently most elements of QQbar are printed in interval notation: [-2.0741620076681855 .. -2.0741620076681850] + [1.7722625415877633 .. 1.7722625415877638]*I
When dealing with lots of these, or when dealing with matrices and vectors of QQbar elements, this quickly becomes overwhelming because of the massive amount of almost-the-same numbers, the extra brackets, etc. What do people think of printing QQbar elements in a different way (thanks to cwitty for suggesting the question mark syntax): 1. Appending a question mark after the last unquestionable digit an interval: -2.074162007668185? + 1.772262541587763?*I 2. Appending a question mark after the first questionable digit of an interval: -2.0741620076681853? + 1.7722625415877636?*I 3. Printing the center of each interval in angle brackets: <-2.0741620076681853 + 1.7722625415877636*I> 4. Just print the center of the interval, with no indication that we actually have an exact QQbar element: -2.0741620076681853 + 1.7722625415877636*I Any better ideas? The nice thing about option 4 is that one can then copy and paste and get a fairly good approximation for the QQbar element. However, the other options are nice in that they signify that we have an exact algebraic value rather than a floating point approximation. Thanks, Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
