Jacob wrote: > It does seem strange that the answer that looked like it should be real is > actually not. If you have sage evaluate the first value in the returned > answers you see that despite its appearance it is the pure real number that > you desire. > > b[0].right().n() > > you get > -1.44224957030741 > > So make sure that your students see that sage *did* return the desired > value. But also remind them to be careful because all other things being > equal technology tends to answer your questions in the way that makes the > most sense to its programmer, which does not necessarily make the most sense > to a student (or anyone else).
Thank you for clearing this up for me :-) It never occurred to me to evaluate the other two values because of the way they were expressed. I just learned something new and now I think I will add this information to the newbies book. Ted --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
