On Tuesday 20 March 2007 5:30 pm, Kyle Schalm wrote:
> > Work over QQ instead:
> >
> > sage: W. = QQ['w1','w2']
> > sage: factor(w1*w2)
> > w2 * w1
> >
> > One can reduce factoring over ZZ to over QQ, with some work.
> > Volunteers...?
> >
> > William
>
> oh good, an easy workaround. the same tric
>
> Work over QQ instead:
>
> sage: W. = QQ['w1','w2']
> sage: factor(w1*w2)
> w2 * w1
>
> One can reduce factoring over ZZ to over QQ, with some work.
> Volunteers...?
>
> William
oh good, an easy workaround. the same trick doesn't seem to work if the
base ring is a polynomial ring, that is,
On 3/20/07, Kyle Schalm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> how hard would it be to make this work?
>
> W. = ZZ['w1','w2']
> factor(w1*w2)
>
>
> i'm using sage 2.3. if somebody could send me a code snippet,
> it would be hugely appreciated.
Work over QQ instead:
sage: W. = QQ['w1','w2']
sage: fact
