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,

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