Hi, you can use "sign" to know if a polynomial is nonnegative.

On Sun, Oct 7, 2018, 3:40 AM Kyle Andrews <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am interested in writing a naive procedure for testing whether a square
> symmetric matrix is positive definite. I'm getting to the
> Polynomial(Integer) at the end, but haven't found any documentation showing
> how to test whether a Polynomial(Integer) must be positive (or 0). I know I
> could write this function by examining eigenvalues but would like to
> explore the facilities for doing it the other way.
>
> Thanks for any hints or suggestions.
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