> Factoring over the symbolic ring doesn't factor the constants.
Understood.
> This kind of reminds me of what happens with Maple or Mathematica:
>
> sage: maple.eval('factor(1681)')
> '1681'
>
> ... where you have a different command for factoring integers.
Interesting.
However, the documentation at
sage: factor?
isn't explicit about how that might go wrong. Certainly a neophyte
user is not going to immediately realize that f(30), even though it
outputs an integer, is actually outputting a symbolic integer which
does not need to be factored. Adding an example like this to the
global factor documentation is now #5192.
Thanks for the clarification,
- kcrisman
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