On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 9:12:00 AM UTC-8, Andrew wrote:
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, 14 January 2014 17:21:41 UTC+1, rjf wrote:
>>
>> Division with remainder is available in Maxima as the command divide.
>> e.g. divide(a, x-4,x) returns the pair, x-1 and 2 for
>> quotient and remainder.
>> LCM is available in Maxima as lcm. It probably has the semantics you
>> expect.
>>
>> If you want a tableau displaying the steps in polynomial long division,
>> or synthetic division (?) then
>> Divide() won't satisfy your request.
>>
>>
>
> This wasn't what was being asked, but the syntax for doing this in sage
> is:
> sage: a.quo_rem(x-4)
> (x - 1, 2)
> A.
>
Or for consistency with division by integers:
sage: a // (x-4) # quotient
x-1
sage: a % (x-4) # remainder
2
--
John
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