One reason to not interpret scientific notation as integers is to avoid unintended huge memory consumption. Most of the time, scientific notation is meant to denote floats:
sage: 1e323228496 1.00000000000000e323228496 and if this is intended, interpreting the thing as an integer leads to nasty surprises: sage: 1*10^323228496 <better have a lot of memory> Anyway, this example also shows that sage already has scientific notation for integers. You just need to spell the "e" as "*10^". It's a very flexible notation, since it also easily allows scientific notation with respect to other bases. It's very unlikely that there are many serious uses for integers divisible by large powers of 10 that aren't equally interesting for other large powers, so there is little reason to introduce a special notation for them. -- 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
