2014-03-13 9:28 UTC+01:00, Marc Mezzarobba <[email protected]>:
> Thierry wrote:
>> - rename RR as RFF (for "real floating field"), so that this
>> representation is not preferred than the others (especially RDF which
>> is faster and allows using more libraries, with the same 53 bits of
>> precision). The current name RR suggests it is the right default
>> choice.
>
> Yes, there seems to be a lot of confusion due to the set of 53-bit
> floating-point numbers being called "real field". See #11506 for a few
> examples.
>

These examples are great ! It would be more natural to have
sage: Infinity in RFF and NaN in RFF     # real floating field
True
sage: Infinity in RR and NaN in RR         # real numbers
False

But the answer to "x in P" when x is an element and P a Parent is not
quite clear to me.

Vincent

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