On Nov 4, 2009, at 3:01 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > Simon King wrote: >> Hi Michael! >> >> On 4 Nov., 20:55, Michael Orlitzky <[email protected]> wrote: >> [...] >>>> it starts using floating point numbers internally. >>> I didn't tell it to do that. >> >> You did. 0.5 is a floating point number. > > I guess it comes down to that, when I say 0.3 I mean 0.3, and SAGE > assumes that I mean (5404319552844595/18014398509481984). > > My expectation was misguided, I see, but I think it's fairly standard. > And the first warning to that effect shouldn't be wildly incorrect > results (already discussed).
I'm pretty sure it didn't come through in my other emails, but I certainly agree there is a lot of room for improvement here, both in documentation, warnings, and more numerically stable algorithms. - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
