#7660: arithmetic with equations and inequalities confusing
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       Reporter:  burcin             |        Owner:  burcin
           Type:  defect             |       Status:  needs_review
       Priority:  major              |    Milestone:  sage-6.4
      Component:  symbolics          |   Resolution:
       Keywords:  inequality,        |    Merged in:
  solver, maxima                     |    Reviewers:
        Authors:  Burcin Erocal,     |  Work issues:
  Ralf Stephan                       |       Commit:
Report Upstream:  N/A                |  14ede75c5f56554ef9e61c094d3bb4e971280314
         Branch:  public/7660        |     Stopgaps:
   Dependencies:                     |
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Comment (by rws):

 Replying to [comment:42 jdemeyer]:
 > Why convert to `RR`? I would simply use
 > {{{
 > if right == 0:
 >     ...
 > elif right >= 0:
 >     ...
 > elif right <= 0:
 >     ...
 > else:
 >     raise ArithmeticError(...)
 > }}}
 > This handles non-constant symbolic expressions also.
 Seems we have to open a ticket?
 {{{
 sage: def f(ex):
     if ex==0:
         print 'zero'
     elif ex<0:
         print 'minus'
     else:
         print 'else'
 ....:
 sage: ex=-I
 sage: f(ex)
 minus
 sage: bool(-I<0)
 True
 sage: bool(I>0)
 True
 }}}

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/7660#comment:43>
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