Thanks. I did not know. I thought the standard was mixed numbers. On 2/7/07, Martin Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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] > > > > >
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