It is not only more pythonic if you cut the series at N-1 it is also natural if you are used to work with spectral methods and ffts, because a trig. poly. with deg N-1 has N coefficients, since the constant term has degree 0.
greez Maldun On Jun 18, 2:25 am, Andrey Novoseltsev <novos...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > There is a discrepancy between the documentation and behaviour of > partial sums of Fourier series:http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8603 > > If the cut-off parameter is N, then the documentation says that N-th > term will be included, but it is not. > > To fix it, one should either adjust the documentation, which is easy > and does not break any code, or change the behaviour, which leads to > exceptions in doctests and can break similar user code. What should we > do? Including N seems a bit more natural, but stopping at N-1 is more > Pythonic, i.e. like range(N). > > Thank you, > Andrey -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
