On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 3:16 AM, Chris Wuthrich
<[email protected]> wrote:
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>> What about the quadratic case? Would you oppose change the print order
>> just for quadratic number fields (note that we already have a separate class
>> QuadraticNumberField, so the change can easily be made).
>
> And a further subquestion: What about Q[i] ? It seems really strange that
> sage decides to write 3*I + 1. But reverts it for CC(3*I+1).
> No other cas does that, I would think.

Actually, both PARI and Magma do exactly that, at least if you mean
write elements of the quadratic field defined by x^2+1 with the root
of the poly first, then the constant term.    Pari and Magma then put
the I second when representing complex numbers.   Maple probably does
too...

Added examples here --
https://cloud.sagemath.com/projects/2bfce692-d0d8-4b89-968e-d9825f175a0f/files/support/2015-03-18-092139-nf-order.sagews

> While I am at it: Can I ask for a pointer to the discussion why I is
> symbolic ?

I think Bobby Moretti (a UW undergrad) implemented the first version
of symbolics in 2006.    Robert Bradshaw and I only started
implementing basic algebraic number theory functionality (like
QuadraticField, etc.) a year or two later, motivated by an algebraic
number theory grad course I was going to teach...

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