[sage-support] Re: continued_fraction returns nothing

2010-09-15 Thread Håkan Granath
On Sep 15, 3:44 am, Robert Bradshaw rober...@math.washington.edu wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Håkan Granath hakan.gran...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sep 14, 12:16 am, Robert Bradshaw rober...@math.washington.edu wrote: Alastair correctly deduced the issue that it can't tell if

Re: [sage-support] Re: continued_fraction returns nothing

2010-09-15 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 3:47 AM, Håkan Granath hakan.gran...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sep 15, 3:44 am, Robert Bradshaw rober...@math.washington.edu wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Håkan Granath hakan.gran...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sep 14, 12:16 am, Robert Bradshaw

[sage-support] Re: continued_fraction returns nothing

2010-09-14 Thread Håkan Granath
On Sep 14, 12:16 am, Robert Bradshaw rober...@math.washington.edu wrote: Alastair correctly deduced the issue that it can't tell if the number is less than or greater than 2, what should it do here? I do not know what it should do, but what I would have expected in this case is that

Re: [sage-support] Re: continued_fraction returns nothing

2010-09-14 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Håkan Granath hakan.gran...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sep 14, 12:16 am, Robert Bradshaw rober...@math.washington.edu wrote: Alastair correctly deduced the issue that it can't tell if the number is less than or greater than 2, what should it do here? I do not

Re: [sage-support] Re: continued_fraction returns nothing

2010-09-14 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Robert Bradshaw rober...@math.washington.edu wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Håkan Granath hakan.gran...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sep 14, 12:16 am, Robert Bradshaw rober...@math.washington.edu wrote: Alastair correctly deduced the issue that it can't

Re: [sage-support] Re: continued_fraction returns nothing

2010-09-13 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Marshall Hampton hampto...@gmail.com wrote: I am guessing this is an indirect effect from this patch: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8017 but I am not sure.  If you do continued_fraction(N(a)) you get the same answer as before, but I would say this