id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,resolution,keywords,cc,work_issues,upstream,reviewer,author,merged,dependencies,stopgaps
9701,NumberFieldElement should have a conversion to float,cwitty,davidloeffler,"The missing conversion from {{{NumberFieldElement}}} to float is the cause of this strangeness:

{{{
sage: RR(I*I)
-1.00000000000000
sage: float(I*I)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)

/home/cwitty/svn-ironpython/IronPython_Main/<ipython console> in <module>()

/home/cwitty/sage-4.5.2.alpha1/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sage/symbolic/expression.so in sage.symbolic.expression.Expression.__float__ (sage/symbolic/expression.cpp:5205)()

TypeError: unable to simplify to float approximation
}}}

(I'll have a patch posted for this in a few minutes.)",defect,closed,major,sage-4.6,number fields,fixed,,,,N/A,David Loeffler,Carl Witty,sage-4.6.alpha2,,