You are right, of course.  I am modifying the trac ticket to correct this.

Best,
Alex

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Ralf Hemmecke <r...@hemmecke.de> wrote:

>
> > Yes, this is a bug.  The result should be O(z^0), just as in the
> > following example:
> >
> > sage: S.<z> = QQ[[]]
> > sage: p = 1 + z + O(z^2)
> > sage: q = 1 + z
> > sage: p(q)
> > O(z^0)
> >
> > This is now trac #5367.
>
> Are you sure that O(z^0) is correct?
> x = 1 + z + z^2 + z^3 + ... (ad infinitum)
> would be a series that fits in the class p.
> Now plug in q. Sounds as infinity (which is the the constant term of the
> result) is O(z^0)...
>
> I would rather forbid the constant term of q to be anything but zero.
>
> I guess the sage-combinat people probably have something to say here.
>
> Ralf
>
> >
>


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