2014-10-22 23:31 UTC, David Roe <[email protected]>: >> >> >> > 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... >> >> > In the example Volker gave, the number field was equipped with an embedding > into R. In this case, the comparison shouldn't be too hard so we should > support it.
That was not my point. Where do we put the code ? If we have to see what is the embedding each time a comparison is performed it would be useless. Vincent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
