There is the following one-liner but you can't write it as polynomial (Sage polynomials always evaluate the coefficients)
sage: R.<x> = ZZ[] sage: map(factor, (x^2+9).coefficients()) [3^2, 1] On Thursday, August 13, 2015 at 8:48:08 PM UTC+2, Ursula Whitcher wrote: > > Is there a quick way to factor the coefficients of a polynomial over the > integers in Sage? > > For example, given x^2+9, I would like to rewrite it as x^2+3^2. > > I can see a slow way to do this (iterate over poly.factor_list(), extract > coefficients, factor, rebuild the polynomial). But perhaps there is a > shortcut built into Sage? > > --Ursula. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
