See https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/33813 for a somewhat related issue, by the way.
On Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 1:18:56 PM UTC-7 john.c...@gmail.com wrote: > My suggestion was only for univariate polynomials. I am certainly not > proposing this for multivariate polynomials. I still cannot think of > a use case for the current default for univariate polynomials. (And, > more than one person has complained to me about this "very annoying > and incomprehensible" behaviour.) > > John > > On Wed, 19 Oct 2022 at 21:10, Dima Pasechnik <dim...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Could it be it's the same default for univariate and multivariate cases? > In the latter case, it's easier to blow off memory usage to store zeros... > > > > On Wed, 19 Oct 2022, 21:06 David Ayotte, <davida...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> I agree with this suggestion. Whenever I am looking for the > coefficients of a polynomial, I also use the option "sparse=False" as this > gives me indirect information about the degree of each associated monomial. > In fact, I remember being a bit confused when I first used this method. > >> > >> Best, > >> > >> David A. > >> > >> Le mercredi 19 octobre 2022 à 12:34:59 UTC-4, john.c...@gmail.com a > écrit : > >>> > >>> Does anyone ever use pol.coefficients() and not > >>> pol.coefficients(sparse=False)? I mean, why is the default option > >>> sparse=True? There must be very few occasions for the default,and I > >>> get tired of typing sparse=False.... I do know that pol.list() is the > >>> same as pol.coefficients(sparse=False). > >>> > >>> I would be happy to propose changing the default, with an appropriate > >>> depreciation warning for the usual period. > >>> > >>> John > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "sage-devel" group. > >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to sage-devel+...@googlegroups.com. > >> To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/aafed6b4-fd16-4aa1-a7df-a63526470eeen%40googlegroups.com > . > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "sage-devel" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to sage-devel+...@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAAWYfq0NEvr7fOr7Q16VQG0BnKeWCZZf%2BDND%3DXagk9ChOOEWFw%40mail.gmail.com > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/7f31906c-1da1-4cb8-a7ad-9828212ee88fn%40googlegroups.com.
