[sage-support] Re: newbie -- defining a multivariate polynomial

2010-03-08 Thread lesshaste
Sorry I should have said a system of multivariate polynomials. Raphael On Mar 8, 3:59 pm, lesshaste wrote: > I am having problems simply defining a multivariate polynomial. I have > a slightly modified excerpt from a very helpful python script I was > given that looks like > > #!/opt/sage-4.3.3-

[sage-support] Re: newbie -- defining a multivariate polynomial

2010-03-08 Thread John H Palmieri
On Mar 8, 7:59 am, lesshaste wrote: > I am having problems simply defining a multivariate polynomial. I have > a slightly modified excerpt from a very helpful python script I was > given that looks like > > #!/opt/sage-4.3.3-linux-32bit-ubuntu_9.10-i686-Linux/sage -python > > import sys > from sag

Re: [sage-support] Re: newbie -- defining a multivariate polynomial

2010-03-08 Thread Martin Albrecht
On Monday 08 March 2010, John H Palmieri wrote: > sage: R = PolynomialRing(ZZ, names=['a' + str(i) for i in range(5)] + > ['b' + str(i) for i in range(10)]) > sage: R > Multivariate Polynomial Ring in a0, a1, a2, a3, a4, b0, b1, b2, b3, > b4, b5, b6, b7, b8, b9 over Integer Ring > > Then to define