On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 5:01 PM, Francesco Bonazzi <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 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*? > I agree. Either of your suggestions sounds better. The number itself isn't large, but it will likely be used in functions or combined in a way that would create a large number. Aaron Meurer > -- > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/5f9fb80d-dcd5-4816-9c5c-b92b87e0900c%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/CAKgW%3D6LdxmuE55YByWDRzYqhaRZOYrLPvZSMAiLHkvjAxYAEag%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
