On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 5:01 AM, Chris Wuthrich <[email protected]> wrote: > Since I was at the origin of the argument for a change (long time ago > already), I better add my opinion: > > I would change all number field printing by reversing the order. For > instance this feels unnatural to me: > > sage: K = NumberField(x^7-3, "a") > sage: K([1,2,3,4,5,6,7]) > 7*a^6 + 6*a^5 + 5*a^4 + 4*a^3 + 3*a^2 + 2*a + 1 > > I really believe a large majority of number theorist will write > 1+ zeta + zeta^2 > in cyclotomic fields or > 1+ sqrt[3]{7} +... > more generally etc. > > However, it is purely an aesthetic question.
-1 to this proposal because what Sage currently does is consistent with what PARI and Magma both currently do. See [1]. [1] https://cloud.sagemath.com/projects/2bfce692-d0d8-4b89-968e-d9825f175a0f/files/support/2015-03-18-092139-nf-order.sagews -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-nt" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-nt. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
