Just to pick up on a comment from William's message earlier On 13 May 2012 12:46, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote: > > It might be useful to work with floating point approximations to the > algebraic numbers and ask for the minpoly of any particular one later.
This is exactly what is done by Sage's (IMHO excellent and rather under-appreciated) QQbar module. At the moment this is not terribly well integrated with either the number fields code or the symbolics stuff, though; it could be made much more useful with a bit of work on the coercion code. David -- 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
