RE: [Axiom-developer] algebra cycles again (was: Left shifts of n egative numbers)

[Page, Bill]

On Tuesday, October 14, 2003 10:30 PM I wrote:
> 
> I was especially mystified by the code in float.spad that
> defines:
> 
>   shift(x:%,n:I) == [x.mantissa,x.exponent+n]
> 

On second (or is it third?) thought, this is not really
mysterious. The above definition of shift is for the
case where the first argument is a Float. This definition
is correct and not directly affected by the problem with
shift for negative integer arguments.

Cheers,
Bill Page.