2014-10-22 17:13 UTC, Volker Braun <[email protected]>:
> The number field comparison returns ">" for any two non-equal numbers.

Nope. Not true for quadratic number fields (see #13213).

> Surely there is a good reason for that behavior?

I see at least two reasons:
 - it is not that easy to provide a efficient algorithm for comparisons
 - the comparisons depend on the embedding, which might be in RR, CC
or an extension of Qp. I do not see how we can have a generic
comparison scheme that would work in all cases...

Vincent

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