On Mar 27, 2008, at 3:47 PM, John Cremona wrote:
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> Although Justin's solution certainly works, one might consider adding
> a "real_part()" function to the quaternion class. But it would not do
> to call the function "real_part" since of course it depends on the
> ground field (which in the exa
[I took this off sage-support, since it's really a development
discussion]
On Mar 27, 2008, at 15:47 , John Cremona wrote:
> Although Justin's solution certainly works, one might consider adding
> a "real_part()" function to the quaternion class. But it would not do
> to call the function "re
