Could it be it's the same default for univariate and multivariate cases? In the latter case, it's easier to blow off memory usage to store zeros...
On Wed, 19 Oct 2022, 21:06 David Ayotte, <davidayott...@gmail.com> wrote: > I agree with this suggestion. Whenever I am looking for the coefficients > of a polynomial, I also use the option "sparse=False" as this gives me > indirect information about the degree of each associated monomial. In fact, > I remember being a bit confused when I first used this method. > > Best, > > David A. > > Le mercredi 19 octobre 2022 à 12:34:59 UTC-4, john.c...@gmail.com a > écrit : > >> Does anyone ever use pol.coefficients() and not >> pol.coefficients(sparse=False)? I mean, why is the default option >> sparse=True? There must be very few occasions for the default,and I >> get tired of typing sparse=False.... I do know that pol.list() is the >> same as pol.coefficients(sparse=False). >> >> I would be happy to propose changing the default, with an appropriate >> depreciation warning for the usual period. >> >> John >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/aafed6b4-fd16-4aa1-a7df-a63526470eeen%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/aafed6b4-fd16-4aa1-a7df-a63526470eeen%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAAWYfq0NEvr7fOr7Q16VQG0BnKeWCZZf%2BDND%3DXagk9ChOOEWFw%40mail.gmail.com.
