On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 7:11 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:48 AM, kcrisman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Tried on sagenb.org: > > > > sage: t=real(x) > > sage: imag(real(i));imag(t(i)) > > 0.0 > > 1.0 > > We have real(x) is just x in Sage: > > sage: t = real(x) > t > sage: t > x > > This is *because* of Maxima, which stupidly does this: > > sage: !maxima > Maxima 5.13.0 http://maxima.sourceforge.net > Using Lisp CLISP 2.41 (2006-10-13) > Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING. > Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter. > This is a development version of Maxima. The function bug_report() > provides bug reporting information. > (%i1) realpart(x); > (%o1) x > (%i2) > > -------- > > This is about the millionth "maxima is stupid" bug we've seen at this > point... > It is good to list them all very carefully. > > Bill Furnish is going to spend the whole summer full time (funded by > Google!) > working on rewriting the symbolic calculus backend from scratch in Cython > (he's already working on this, by the way), and the hope is that > then he'll be able to fix many such issues. Bill -- comments?
Not only he, but any other Sage developer and that's the main point. Ondrej --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
