[sage-devel] Re: Specifying variable names

2006-10-29 Thread William Stein
On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:50:16 -0800, Nils Bruin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> One possibility, which I haven't quite thought through, is to allow the >> user to get away with: >> >> R=PolynomialRing(ZZ) >> > In principle, the only reason why one *has* to give the indeterminates > a name, is to make

[sage-devel] Re: Specifying variable names

2006-10-29 Thread Nils Bruin
> One possibility, which I haven't quite thought through, is to allow the > user to get away with: > > R=PolynomialRing(ZZ) > In principle, the only reason why one *has* to give the indeterminates a name, is to make sure that polynomials can print in a sensible way. However, in the absence of vari