#16397: Symbolic cmp
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       Reporter:  vbraun             |        Owner:
           Type:  defect             |       Status:  needs_review
       Priority:  critical           |    Milestone:  sage-7.1
      Component:  symbolics          |   Resolution:
       Keywords:                     |    Merged in:
        Authors:  Volker Braun,      |    Reviewers:  Ralf Stephan
  Ralf Stephan                       |  Work issues:
Report Upstream:  N/A                |       Commit:
         Branch:  public/16397-1     |  07f12cdfd14f3a7af5445aab7419c0ddaea1074d
   Dependencies:                     |     Stopgaps:
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Comment (by rws):

 How about extending constants with an `evalf` member so that in
 comparisons the precision can be successively increased. Reaching the prec
 limit before a decision will return 0, ie equal.

 Isn't this quite hypothetical, compared to the concretely buggy behaviour
 now?

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