Cast expression to rational number

asked 2016-01-14 16:09:56 +0100

sagenibble
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Hello,

I am trying to perform the ceil() function on the result of a square root operation. My code is as follows:

x = 10
x = x.sqrt()
x = x.ceil()

However, I get the following error:

AttributeError: 'sage.symbolic.expression.Expression' object has no attribute 'ceil'

I have tried searching the the documentation, but I can't seem to find a straight forward way to "flatten" this expression to a rational number. How can I go about this?

Thanks,

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answered 2016-01-14 21:59:54 +0100

vdelecroix
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updated 2016-01-14 22:30:22 +0100

slelievre
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Note that if you are taking the square root of an integer, the fastest might be the method sqrtrem that returns the floor of the square root and the remainder:

sage: x = 10
sage: s,r = x.sqrtrem()
sage: print s
3
sage: print r
1
sage: x == s^2 + r
True

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Then you could get the ceiling as follows.

def sqrtceil(x):
    """
    Return the ceiling of the square root of this integer
    """"
    s, r = x.sqrtrem()
    if r:   # meaning if r nonzero, then sqrtceil = sqrtfloor + 1
        return s + 1
    else:  # meaning r is zero, ie x is a square, so sqrtfloor = sqrtceil
        return s

slelievre ( 2016-01-14 22:33:34 +0100 )edit

Or condensed ;-)

def sqrtceil(x):
    s, r = x.sqrtrem()
    return s + bool(r)

vdelecroix ( 2016-01-14 23:15:55 +0100 )edit

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answered 2016-01-14 17:28:59 +0100

slelievre
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When you take the square root of an integer number that is not a square, you get an object in Sage's "Symbolic Ring", where the ceil method is not available.

You could start with a floating-point 10 rather than an integer 10:

sage: x = RDF(10)
sage: x
10.0
sage: x.parent()
Real Double Field
sage: x = x.sqrt()
sage: x
3.1622776601683795
sage: x.parent()
Real Double Field
sage: x = x.ceil()
sage: x
4
sage: x.parent()
Integer Ring

Compare with your original computations:

sage: x = 10
sage: x
10
sage: x.parent()
Integer Ring
sage: x = x.sqrt()
sage: x
sqrt(10)
sage: x.parent()
Symbolic Ring
sage: x = x.ceil()
...
AttributeError: 'sage.symbolic.expression.Expression' object has no attribute 'ceil'

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Interesting, but is there no way to force the Symbolic Ring to produce a flattened number?

sagenibble ( 2016-01-18 11:29:39 +0100 )edit

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