mabshoff wrote: > > > On Oct 31, 2:05 am, Ralf Hemmecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Sage is full of "fields" that aren't actually fields mathematically. >>> Field in Sage means "object that models a mathematical field", >>> but includes e.g., the "field of double precision floating point numbers", >>> which isn't really a field (e.g., it is finite). > > Hi Ralf, > >> And + is not associative... > > It isn't for floats, but for "real" fields it is.
Where, of course, "real" does not mean "RealField", I presume :). "real" means QQ, ZZ, etc. Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
