#11670: fix number fields being unique parents -- this got broken over the years
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Reporter: was | Owner: davidloeffler
Type: defect | Status: needs_review
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-6.2
Component: number fields | Resolution:
Keywords: | Merged in:
Authors: Julian Rueth | Reviewers: Simon King
Report Upstream: N/A | Work issues:
Branch: | Commit:
u/saraedum/ticket/11670 | 70702aa690a31cc36b9febe36462c67ebd57dcee
Dependencies: | Stopgaps:
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Comment (by saraedum):
Replying to [comment:29 pbruin]:
> Replying to [comment:28 saraedum]:
> > I agree that it makes sense that two number fields are different if
they have a different structure. I had a feeling that this would break too
much existing code, though.
> Hmm, I wonder if one could test easily if this would indeed be a problem
(within the Sage library, say).
> > I think it is a natural first step to rewrite number fields to use a
factory and make them unique parents (this ticket).
> Doesn't "unique parents" mean precisely that parents are equal if and
only if they are identical (see the third paragraph of
[http://www.sagemath.org/doc/thematic_tutorials/coercion_and_categories.html
this page])?
Ok. Maybe I am using the wrong vocabulary here. I meant, "uniue" as in
"two fields generated from the same arguments are identical", not as in
"unique representation".
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