> I agree with Simon, although finding a nice expression like sqrt(2)+3^(1/3) > can be very costly deppending on how the algebraic number was constructed.
Yepyep. As Simon said we cannot always express algebraic numbers in such a nice way, though..... Well, if you want to build such an object *in Sage* then you must describe your value somehow, and it is also stored internally somewhere.. And I wonder how, and whether we can base the representation on this internal version of the value :-) > Anyways we could have such an expression for the cases where it is evident > from the number construction. +1 > Related to that, i think the current 17? digits are way too much for a > visually nice representation. I would prefear to see 1.4142... than > 1.414213562373095? inside an expression. +1. It would also lessen the odds of having people believe that it is stored as a float (with possibly many, but finitely many, digits) Nathann -- 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 post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
