Dear GAP forum, I was recently caught off guard by the following:
gap> Sqrt(2)<2; false Now that I've read the manual more carefully, I don't think this is a malfunction. Instead, it looks like GAP will always report irrational cyclotomics to be larger than rationals. Does anybody know of a workaround that compares real numbers with their usual ordering instead? Suppose we agree that E(n) = exp(2*pi*i/n). As a last resort, I suppose I could run GAP inside of SAGE and get numerical approximations of everything, but I would like to avoid that if possible. Thanks for any advice! Joey Iverson Research Associate University of Maryland, College Park _______________________________________________ Forum mailing list Forum@mail.gap-system.org http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum
