Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of Ticket #14567


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05/12/13 18:03:43 (7 years ago)
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    11Continued fractions (in sage.rings.contfrac) do not do what we expect:
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    3  0. categories are not properly initialized nor used.
    4  1. it only deals with rational numbers
    5  2. there is no dedicated method for numerical approximations (which is one of the first aim of continued fractions)
     3 1. categories are not properly initialized nor used.
     4 2. it only deals with rational numbers
     5 3. there is no dedicated method for numerical approximations (which is one of the first aim of continued fractions)
    66 4. there is no bridge with quadratic numbers (see also #11345)
    7  3. there is no bridge with words (sage.combinat.words)
     7 5. there is no bridge with words (sage.combinat.words)
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    9 The patch proposed here develop some general design for dealing with continued fractions and solves the issues 0, 1 and 4 (and I hope 2); see the discussion below.
     9The patch proposed here develop some general design for dealing with continued fractions and solves the issues 1, 2 and 5 (and I hope 3); see the discussion below.
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