Re: symbolic pkg help for degree

[Svante Signell]

On Sun, 2016-01-03 at 09:54 -0500, Doug Stewart wrote:
> 
> Function File: n = degree (p)
> Function File: n = degree (p, x)
> Extract numerator and demoninator of symbolic expression.
> Examples:
> syms x
> degree(x^2 + 6)
>    ⇒ (sym) 2
> 
> 
> This function does not "extract numerator and denominator from"
> It finds the highest power of a variable.

Well, it returns the degree of the numerator polynomial, which is two.
In this example, there is no denominator polynomial defined (note the
spelling, the help text is wrong!)