Yes, I consider

sage: bool(pi<Infinity)
False

to be a silent, incorrect result. "stopgap" is a reference to a ticket
that makes the error non-silent.

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 1:02 AM, P Purkayastha <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think the "stopgap" was introduced for the case where Sage silently gives
> incorrect results.
>
>
> On Saturday, May 12, 2012 4:06:50 AM UTC+8, kcrisman wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Friday, May 11, 2012 3:34:26 PM UTC-4, Robert Bradshaw wrote:
>>>
>>> Did we ever decide on a standard label for mathematically incorrect
>>> results? This shouldn't drop under the radar.
>>>
>>
>>
>> There is the "stopgap" terminology, but that's not what we called the
>> incorrect result, that's for the stopgap ticket itself.
>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 8:37 AM, P Purkayastha <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Friday, May 11, 2012 4:58:53 PM UTC+8, Robert Samal wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Hi!
>>> >>
>>> >> By some random experiments I discovered the following weirdness:
>>> >>
>>> >> sage: bool(pi<Infinity)
>>> >> False
>>> >> sage: bool(pi>Infinity)
>>> >> True
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > This looks like a bad bug. I think you can open tickets for things like
>>> > this
>>> > without announcing first.
>>> >
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