Karim BELABAS on Mon, 6 Oct 2003 19:21:46 +0200 (MEST) |
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Re: sqrtint(-N) is broken |
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Bill Allombert wrote: > It's look like sqrtint(-N) is broken. > > ? sqrtint(-18891990361510463883) > %1 = -180277404801467*I > ? sqrtint(18891990361510463883) > %2 = 4346491730 [...] > I would prefer sqrtint to fail on negative integers by the way. The > current behavior just hide wrong input for a not really meaningful > output, like OK. I've disallowed it. (19:21) gp > sqrtint(-1) *** negative integer in sqrtint. Karim. -- Karim Belabas Tel: (+33) (0)1 69 15 57 48 Dép. de Mathématiques, Bât. 425 Fax: (+33) (0)1 69 15 60 19 Université Paris-Sud http://www.math.u-psud.fr/~belabas/ F-91405 Orsay (France) http://www.parigp-home.de/ [PARI/GP]