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

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