On 5 Sep., 17:44, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Presently, int()^whatever stays Pythonic, no matter it causes a loss of > precision, or not.
Not true: sage: 3r^ZZ(-3) 0.037037037037037035 sage: 3r^QQ(-3) 1/27 I'm strongly against making the result of exponentiation (of e.g. Python ints) depend on the exponent's *type*; it should only depend on its *value*, in this case yielding either Python ints or floats in turn. Exponentiation isn't commutative (nor associative), in contrast to multiplication and addition, where a factor / summand of type Integer makes the product / sum be of Sage's Integer type. -leif -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
