Re: [sage-devel] Re: polynomial coefficients -- sparse=True default -- why?

2022-10-19 Thread John H Palmieri
See https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/33813 for a somewhat related issue, by the way. On Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 1:18:56 PM UTC-7 john.c...@gmail.com wrote: > My suggestion was only for univariate polynomials. I am certainly not > proposing this for multivariate polynomials. I still

Re: [sage-devel] Re: polynomial coefficients -- sparse=True default -- why?

2022-10-19 Thread John Cremona
My suggestion was only for univariate polynomials. I am certainly not proposing this for multivariate polynomials. I still cannot think of a use case for the current default for univariate polynomials. (And, more than one person has complained to me about this "very annoying and

Re: [sage-devel] Re: polynomial coefficients -- sparse=True default -- why?

2022-10-19 Thread David Ayotte
> 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... You are right. In fact, the multivariate coefficients method does not even have a "sparse" option. Le mercredi 19 octobre 2022 à 16:10:13

Re: [sage-devel] Re: polynomial coefficients -- sparse=True default -- why?

2022-10-19 Thread Dima Pasechnik
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, wrote: > I agree with this suggestion. Whenever I am looking for the coefficients > of a polynomial, I