Ok first I would thank everyone for their thoughts. I think the best is to do a design document, or at least start a ticket where we come to a common agreement how to handle the input because there are several possiblities to do that. And it is important that we are more or less happy about the solution. I'm a little bit short on time in the next weeks, but I hope to get back into it soon =)
@rjf Of course from a mathematical point of view you are correct, but from a more pragmatic point of view you have to consider that about 80%-90% of the input satisfy these assumptions. So one can prevent about 80%-90% of the mistakes. For the others it is important to give the user a good control about the choice of the method. It remembers me somehow of the arguments people used against seatbelts, because there are SOME cases where the seatbelt could kill you even when it saves your life in 80% of the cases... >For example, you could solve World Hunger if you assume >(a) there is enough free food for everyone and (b) there is >enough free transportation to distribute it. Ever watched "We feed the world"? Just curious :) -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
