On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 11:34:00AM -0800, Fredrik Johansson wrote: [...] > The fact that Sage provides multiple implementations of real numbers > with different pros and cons is a good thing. I think the case can be > made for having an abstract RR (perhaps with another name) really > representing the real numbers, and making the conceptual separation > between real numbers (as a mathematical concept) and > floating-point/interval/lazy/other approximations even stronger. My own > biased opinion is also that interval arithmetic should be used and > encouraged more in Sage... I would also like lazy real numbers to be > more useful than they are currently, and overall it would be nice to > have numerical functionality much better integrated with symbolic > expressions (which is something that Mathematica does *extremely* well).
I think we agree on that, see http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/17713#comment:3 Ciao, Thierry > > Fredrik > > -- > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
