[sage-devel] Re: two polynomial questions

2010-08-25 Thread kcrisman
On Aug 25, 4:02 am, "Johan S. R. Nielsen" wrote: > > 2. If one has a non-symbolic polynomial currently, it won't plot with > > the new plotting syntax. > > > plot(f,0,5) # works, old-school Sage > > plot(f,(x,0,5)) # doesn't work, new-school Sage > > plot(f,x,0,5) # doesn't work, though sort of

[sage-devel] Re: two polynomial questions

2010-08-25 Thread Johan S. R. Nielsen
> 2. If one has a non-symbolic polynomial currently, it won't plot with > the new plotting syntax. > > plot(f,0,5) # works, old-school Sage > plot(f,(x,0,5)) # doesn't work, new-school Sage > plot(f,x,0,5) # doesn't work, though sort of makes sense it shouldn't > since x isn't a symbolic variable n

[sage-devel] Re: two polynomial questions

2010-08-25 Thread Johan S. R. Nielsen
> >  > 1. There is no way to get a symbolic interpolated polynomial de novo > >  > without going through polynomial rings, e.g. all these steps: > >  > > >  > pts = [(1,2),(2,3),(3,2),(4,3),(5,2),(6,3)] > >  > R.=QQ[] > >  > f = R.lagrange_polynomial(pts) > >  > SR(f) > >  > Everything you're doin

[sage-devel] Re: two polynomial questions

2010-08-24 Thread kcrisman
On Aug 24, 10:51 am, Jason Grout wrote: > On 08/24/2010 09:03 AM, kcrisman wrote: >  > Dear sage-devel, >  > >  > I have two things I just want confirmation of before I file tickets - >  > such as an alternate way/workaround to do these things which I have >  > missed.  Thanks for any replies. >

[sage-devel] Re: two polynomial questions

2010-08-24 Thread Jason Grout
On 08/24/2010 09:03 AM, kcrisman wrote: > Dear sage-devel, > > I have two things I just want confirmation of before I file tickets - > such as an alternate way/workaround to do these things which I have > missed. Thanks for any replies. > > - kcrisman > > 1. There is no way to get a symbolic inte

[sage-devel] Re: two polynomial questions

2010-08-24 Thread kcrisman
On Aug 24, 10:03 am, kcrisman wrote: > Dear sage-devel, > > I have two things I just want confirmation of before I file tickets - > such as an alternate way/workaround to do these things which I have > missed.  Thanks for any replies. > > - kcrisman > > 1. There is no way to get a symbolic inter