On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Mike Hansen <mhan...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Rob Beezer <goo...@beezer.cotse.net> wrote: >> OK, thanks for the explanation, Tom. p.exponents() was the missing >> piece I did not have. > > It would probably make sense to have p.monomials() method to be > consistent with the multivariate case: > > sage: R.<t,s> = QQ[] > sage: p = t^4 + 8 > sage: p.coefficients() > [1, 8] > sage: p.monomials() > [t^4, 1] > sage: sum(c*m for c,m in zip(p.coefficients(), p.monomials())) > t^4 + 8
+1 > p.coeffs() might be better off renamed to something like > all_coefficients or dense_coefficients or .... I use p.coeffs() pretty often. Perhaps p.coefficients should take an additional argument: p.coeffs could be an alias to p.coefficients(dense=True), and get deprecated. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
