+1 for the change; this is what both Maple and Mathematica and Most Mathematicians do.
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 9:25 AM, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- 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.
