Precision management for non-exact objects

Manage the default precision for non-exact objects such as power series rings or laurent series rings.

EXAMPLES:

sage: R.<x> = PowerSeriesRing(QQ)
sage: R.default_prec()
20
sage: cos(x)
1 - 1/2*x^2 + 1/24*x^4 - 1/720*x^6 + 1/40320*x^8 - 1/3628800*x^10 +
 1/479001600*x^12 - 1/87178291200*x^14 + 1/20922789888000*x^16 -
 1/6402373705728000*x^18 + O(x^20)

sage: R.<x> = PowerSeriesRing(QQ, default_prec=10)
sage: R.default_prec()
10
sage: cos(x)
1 - 1/2*x^2 + 1/24*x^4 - 1/720*x^6 + 1/40320*x^8 + O(x^10)

Note

Subclasses of Nonexact which require to change the default precision should implement a method \(set_default_prec\).

class sage.structure.nonexact.Nonexact(prec=20)

Bases: object

A non-exact object with default precision.

INPUT:

  • prec – a non-negative integer representing the default precision of self (default: 20)

default_prec()

Return the default precision for self.

EXAMPLES:

sage: R = QQ[[x]]
sage: R.default_prec()
20

sage: R.<x> = PowerSeriesRing(QQ, default_prec=10)
sage: R.default_prec()
10
set_default_prec(prec)

Set the default precision for self

Warning

This method is outdated. If a subclass of class:\(Nonexact\) requires this method, please overload it instead.