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. >>> > >>> > -- >>> > 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 > > -- > 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 -- 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
