So it's a Pari bug. I see. I guess I was misled by the fact that the
"trace" command only reports calls to Python functions. Thanks for
clearing that up.

David

On 10 March 2010 18:53, Robert Bradshaw <rober...@math.washington.edu> wrote:
> On Mar 10, 2010, at 10:36 AM, daveloeffler wrote:
>
>> PS: I've realised that one can trigger more or less the same bug by
>> doing
>>
>> sage: x = QQbar(-7).sqrt()
>> sage: y = QQbar(-7).sqrt()
>> sage: x == y
>>
>> so embeddings of number fields aren't the problem, there's something
>> amiss with QQbar.
>
> QQ(sqrt(-7)) is a popular number field, I ran into that bug last week.
>
> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8415
>
> The solution is to upgrade pari, but for the moment I hacked around this
> pari bug. Maybe I should clean that up and submit a patch if pari 2.3.5
> isn't going to happen right away.
>
> - Robert
>
>

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