On Sunday, March 18, 2018 at 5:19:07 PM UTC+1, Johan S. H. Rosenkilde wrote: > > I don't have a better explanation for why this difference has been > adopted in Sage than the above: following IEEE standard vs doing the > mathematically safe-and-fail-early-solution. Perhaps someone more > knowledgeable about this can chime in. >
Historically throwing this specific error was introduced with the massive effort of adapting GiNaC to Sage (2008-2012). There are various errors you can get by triggering different code parts. Another in symbolics: sage: SR(1)/0 ... ZeroDivisionError: Symbolic division by zero Regards, -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
