Dear all, I would like to discuss the patchbomb at
https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/24523 The ticket hopes to change the string representation from "Real Field with XX bits of precision" to "Real Floating-point field with XX bits of precision". Rationale: it was quite unfortunate from the beginning that RealField and ComplexField mean "floating-point arithmetic". On the one hand, one would like to be able to work with the (abstract) Parent modeling the real numbers (eg for coercions). On the other hand, in the setting of computer algebra it is very often much better to work with interval arithmetic or balls rather than floating-point. The ticket is a small step towards getting the genuine "RealField" standing for the set of real numbers. See https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/17713 I think this deserves an agreement from other developers! Any comment very welcome. Best Vincent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/f7352180-5d9c-3a00-1f82-0499f405ad38%40gmail.com.
