[sage-devel] Re: multivariate Polynomial Ring with one variable

2008-06-28 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Jun 27, 2008, at 3:18 AM, Bjarke Hammersholt Roune wrote: > On Jun 27, 11:50 am, "Joel B. Mohler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Friday 27 June 2008 04:59:37 am Burcin Erocal wrote: >> >> In general, the difference between >> multivariate and univariate should not matter in practice. >> > +1

[sage-devel] Re: multivariate Polynomial Ring with one variable

2008-06-27 Thread Bjarke Hammersholt Roune
On Jun 27, 11:50 am, "Joel B. Mohler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 27 June 2008 04:59:37 am Burcin Erocal wrote: > > In general, the difference between > multivariate and univariate should not matter in practice. > +1. E.g. exponents() on univariate ring returns a list of int, while exp

[sage-devel] Re: multivariate Polynomial Ring with one variable

2008-06-27 Thread Joel B. Mohler
On Friday 27 June 2008 04:59:37 am Burcin Erocal wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:40:34 -0700 (PDT) > > Bjarke Hammersholt Roune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is definitely a bug since the docs explicitly say: > > > "PolynomialRing(base_ring, name, sparse=False) returns a univariate > > > p

[sage-devel] Re: multivariate Polynomial Ring with one variable

2008-06-27 Thread Burcin Erocal
On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:40:34 -0700 (PDT) Bjarke Hammersholt Roune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is definitely a bug since the docs explicitly say: > > "PolynomialRing(base_ring, name, sparse=False) returns a univariate > > polynomial ring; all other input formats return a multivariate >

[sage-devel] Re: multivariate Polynomial Ring with one variable

2008-06-26 Thread Bjarke Hammersholt Roune
> This is definitely a bug since the docs explicitly say: > "PolynomialRing(base_ring, name, sparse=False) returns a univariate > polynomial ring; all other input formats return a multivariate > polynomial ring." and name is by definition a string. > > To get a multivariate polynomial ring in 1 va

[sage-devel] Re: multivariate Polynomial Ring with one variable

2008-06-26 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Joel B. Mohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I cannot figure out how to force sage to construct a ring as a multivariate > ring with only a single generator. In the past, I used MPolynomialRing to > force multi-variate implementation, but that is now depr