I am guessing this is an indirect effect from this patch: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8017
but I am not sure. If you do continued_fraction(N(a)) you get the same answer as before, but I would say this is a bug that shouldn't need a workaround. -Marshall Hampton On Sep 13, 11:31 am, Håkan Granath <[email protected]> wrote: > In certain cases I get nothing from the continued_fraction function > in the latest Sage version: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > | Sage Version 4.5.3, Release Date: 2010-09-04 | > | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information. | > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > sage: a=sqrt(2).n()*sqrt(2) > sage: continued_fraction(a) > [] > > In version 4.5.2 the output was > > [2, 2251799813685248] > > Best regards, > > Håkan Granath -- 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
