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From: | Ralf Hemmecke |
Subject: | Re: [Axiom-developer] about Expression Integer |
Date: | Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:13:01 +0100 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20051201) |
differentiate(p: %,v: OV) == multivariate(differentiate(univariate(p,v)),v) where univariate just converts p to an element of SparseUnivariatePolynomial(%). (BTW, that's already a trick!)
Alternatively, if we are going to allow constructions in which the coefficient domain of SUP might contain the polynomial variable, then the implementation of 'differentiate' in SUP should be corrected.
Look more closely. SUP does not even know of a variable name. So how should it do something else than differentiate with respect to the only (unamed) variable it has? It's a univariate polynomial in the sense of being a function with finite support from the natural numbers to the coefficient ring.
Ralf
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