On Friday, October 16, 2015 at 2:22:41 PM UTC-7, John Cremona wrote: > > Obviously, any mathematician would expect the mathematically sensible > answer of "undefined". And yes, I do know why that is not what > happens in python. >
Wrong, that IS what happens in python Python 2.7.10 (default, Sep 24 2015, 17:50:09) [GCC 5.1.1 20150618 (Red Hat 5.1.1-4)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> complex(1,0)> complex(0,1) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: no ordering relation is defined for complex numbers It's just the mathematical software sage that goes for the mathematically dubious answer. -- 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.
