On Wednesday, 17 February 2016 22:33:18 UTC+1, Aaron Meurer wrote: > > > My idea is to have a BigNumber wrapper, which pulls assumptions from > its arguments automatically. BigNumber(10).is_positive would be True. > But importantly, BigNumber(10).is_number would be False, and > BigNumber(10).evalf() would be a noop. There could also be a > big_number_simp() which would cautiously go through an expression and > remove BigNumber wrappers when they are no longer needed. >
I see. May I suggest to change its name, *"Big"* seems to imply the number being large, while *BigNumber(10)* is quite small. What about *SymbolicNumber* or *NumberSymbol*? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sympy. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/5f9fb80d-dcd5-4816-9c5c-b92b87e0900c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
