Zulip Chat Archive
Stream: maths
Topic: how does tactic.ring work?
Johan Commelin (Jun 13 2018 at 10:02):
@Kevin Buzzard Re 2: Because znum
is a fast (but somewhat "unmathematical") implementation of int
.
Johan Commelin (Jun 13 2018 at 10:02):
It computes in binary instead of unary arithmetic.
Kevin Buzzard (Jun 13 2018 at 10:03):
If that's the only reason then I might rip them out and replace them with ints because I am trying to de-obfuscate. I just don't want to rip them all out and then find that some meta code stops working!
Johan Commelin (Jun 13 2018 at 10:04):
Hmm, I can't change the stream... even though I changed the topic... [meeh]
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