+1 from my side, too. vdelecroix schrieb am Mittwoch, 14. Oktober 2020 um 08:28:08 UTC+2:
> 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/1478b51e-671d-4fce-902a-bc00bd0f567bn%40googlegroups.com.
