On Wednesday 07 February 2007 07:44, Timothy Clemans wrote: > Does SAGE support representing 11/3 as 3 2/3, 22/13 as 1 9/13, and > 55/4 as 11 1/4? My understanding is that this is the standard in math.
Hi, what do you mean by "representing"? SAGE can surely read "those representations": sage: 11/3 11/3 sage: 3 + 2/3 11/3 sage: 22/6 11/3 However, the output (and storage format) are always going to be the same: i.e. numerator and denominator are canceled out as much as possible, which is the canonical representation. Given, that there are infinitely many representations, it is necessary to restrict to a canonical representation. Martin -- name: Martin Albrecht _pgp: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8EF0DC99 _www: http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~malb _jab: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---