On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 5:14 PM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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. I strongly agree with your suggestion to add some additional
documentation to clarify the situation. Thanks!
>
> Thanks for the clarification,
> - kcrisman
> >
>
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William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org
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