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- Subject: Re: ALGEBRAIC NUMBER ARITHMETIC
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- From: a_rubin@dsg4.dse.beckman.com (Arthur Rubin)
- Date: 30 Jul 92 16:21:01 GMT
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- Keywords: algebraic numbers arithmetic
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- In <aet.712408532@munagin> aet@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (bert thompson) writes:
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- >hi!
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- >i want to perform arithmetic on algebraic numbers.
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- >if i represent an algebraic number by an polynomial in integers
- >and an interval in which is found the root of the polynomial
- >corresponding to the represented number.
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- >so sqrt(2) might look like this:
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- > 2
- >x - 2 = 0 , [1, 3/2]
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- >how would i perform the following operations:
- >(returning a polynomial-interval pair)
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- >+
- >-
- >*
- >/
- >sqrt
- >= (computable? my guess is yes.)
- >and other operations you might think are worth mentioning...
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- If you want to perform arithmetic on algebraic reals, the result from
- mathematical logical the Th(R) is decidable should allow you to compute
- using representations as you suggest.
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