Yeah, I thought this was a bug too at one point. I discussed it with
Craig Citro, and we were all ready to open a ticket when William
overheard us and pointed out that it was made to be consistent with
symbolics.
The convention makes the following nice:
for c,e in zip(p.coefficients(), p.exponen
There is a non-zero probability this has been hashed out before, but I
couldn't find it. And it was brought to me by an experienced Sage
user, and the documentation is not much help either.
sage: t = polygen(QQ, 't')
sage: p = t^4 + 8
sage: p.parent()
Univariate Polynomial Ring in t over Rational
