On Friday, January 8, 2016 at 1:51:27 AM UTC+1, Daniel Lowengrub wrote: > > 1) If we are just reading the coefficients of the power series, why should > it matter if we first cast it to a polynomial? >
We are not. There are substitutions happening, leading to expensive computation of powers. > 2) If the issue lies in the details of the PowerSeries implementation, > then would it make sense to simply cast powerseries to polynomials before > calling methods that do not distinguish between the two? > In this special case yes. I don't know for the general case. Regards, -- 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 post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.