RadicalCategory description

[Grégory Vanuxem]

Hello,

Am I missing something, but I don't really understand the Description
of RadicalCategory in trigcat.spad:

++ Author:
++ Date Created:
++ Change History:
++ Basic Operations: nthRoot, sqrt, ^
++ Related Constructors:
++ Keywords: rational numbers
++ Description: The \spad{RadicalCategory} is a model for the rational numbers

Why are rational numbers mentioned here? I can understand its use for
AlgebraicNumbers, Floats or Complex(Float) for example but here I do
not understand. Fraction(Integer) hasn't RADCAT of course, that's
normal. I would better read something like "Category for radicals" to
mimic a little M. Brownstein after in this file. Do you have some
explanations?

From the GitLens extension in VSCode, this category was moved in
trigcat.spad from sf.spad in 2008 by Martin Rubey:
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Martin Rubey 16 years ago (November 26th, 2008 9:52 PM)

move RADCAT from sf to trigcat, where it belongs. Add documentation concerning
branchcuts to log, acos, asin, atan


git-svn-id: https://fricas.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/fricas/trunk@447
b0c55286-4f34-0410-a049-a1e7e93b0762
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- Greg

[Waldek Hebisch]

On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 06:21:34PM +0100, Grégory Vanuxem wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Am I missing something, but I don't really understand the Description
> of RadicalCategory in trigcat.spad:
>
> ++ Author:
> ++ Date Created:
> ++ Change History:
> ++ Basic Operations: nthRoot, sqrt, ^
> ++ Related Constructors:
> ++ Keywords: rational numbers
> ++ Description: The \spad{RadicalCategory} is a model for the rational numbers
>
> Why are rational numbers mentioned here?

It is clearly a mistake, this should be "Category for radicals."
It is obvious what 'RadicalCategory' means, so probably nobody looked
at description and the mistake was not noticed.

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Waldek Hebisch