Description

For certain mathematical objects, it is useful to designate the field of numbers (such as the rationals or the complex numbers) that they are constructed over. Luckily, Sage has several built in fields for this purpose.

• QQ: The field of rational numbers
• RR: The field of real numbers. Since not all real numbers can be expressed rationally, this field is made up of decimal approximations
• CC: The field of complex numbers. Similar to the reals, this field is made up of decimal approximations.

Sage Cell

We can use these fields to construct vectors specifically over the given field:

Code

A = vector(QQ, [2, 3, 5])
B = vector(RR, [2, 3, 5])
C = vector(CC, [2, 3, 5])
print(A.parent())
print(B.parent())
print(C.parent())

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Finding the Parent Field

We can find the parent field of an object with the .parent() method.

Code

A = matrix(QQ, [[2, 3], [5, 7]])
A.parent()

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Date: 02 Mar 2020 15:18

Submitted by: Zane Corbiere