Simon, You're right, and you pointed the way to an easy solution. Thanks for the help.
Jeff On Jun 5, 11:46 pm, Simon King <simon.k...@uni-jena.de> wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > On 6 Jun., 04:33, Jeff Stroomer <jstroom...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > M = Matrix([ > > [ 1, 0, 0, 0], > > [ 0, 1, 1, 1], > > [ 0, 0, 1, 0], > > [ 0, 0, 0, 1], > > ]) > > Rt = PolynomialRing(GF(101), order = TermOrder(M), names = 'e, t, > > x, y') > > print Rt(g).degree() > > > The first print reports that the degree of g is 7, which is correct, > > but the second reports the degree is 0. > > Both answers are correct. In a matrix order, the first row (resp. the > first column, AFAIK both conventions appear in the literature) of the > matrix provides the degrees of the generators. Here, we have > > sage: Rt.<e,t,x,y> = PolynomialRing(GF(101), order = TermOrder(M)) > sage: e.degree() > 1 > sage: t.degree() > 0 > sage: x.degree() > 0 > sage: y.degree() > 0 > > Hence, IN THAT RING, x^5-x*y^6 is indeed of degree zero. In the other > ring, it is of degree 7. > > Cheers, > Simon -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
