Status: Accepted
Owner: ronan.l...@gmail.com
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New issue 2308 by ronan.l...@gmail.com: Rename or refactor Add.primitive()
http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=2308
What Add.primitive() does is
"Divide ``self`` by the GCD of coef
Comment #1 on issue 2308 by asmeurer: Rename or refactor Add.primitive()
http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=2308
Well the name is not really cryptic, since that is the mathematical
definition of "primitive". See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss%27s_lemma_(polynomial).
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Comment #2 on issue 2308 by ronan.l...@gmail.com: Rename or refactor
Add.primitive()
http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=2308
No, "primitive" doesn't mean that. If it means anything on its own,
it's "antiderivative".
So, you're actually suggesting that it should be renamed
p
Comment #3 on issue 2308 by asmeurer: Rename or refactor Add.primitive()
http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=2308
Well, unfortunately, the word "primitive" has a bunch of completely
different meanings (and all of them seem to be from algebra). See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr
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Comment #4 on issue 2308 by asmeurer: Rename or refactor Add.primitive()
http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=2308
It's easy to add a .primitive() method to Expr, but its implementation
depends on what we decide to do in issue 2307.
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Comment #5 on issue 2308 by asmeurer: Rename or refactor Add.primitive()
http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=2308
So I went ahead and implemented Expr.primitive(), which just returns
self.as_coeff_Mul(). As I mentioned on issue 2307, I
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Comment #6 on issue 2308 by ronan.l...@gmail.com: Rename or refactor
Add.primitive()
http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=2308
Argh! Please, no! If sin(x).primitive() exists, it should return something
like cos(x).
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Comment #7 on issue 2308 by asmeurer: Rename or refactor Add.primitive()
http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=2308
You must be referring to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive_function.
I've never heard of that use of the word before you mentioned it. I don't
think it's commo
Comment #8 on issue 2308 by ronan.l...@gmail.com: Rename or refactor
Add.primitive()
http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=2308
I never thought it was uncommon in English, but I'm not a native speaker.
Still,
http://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=%22the+primiti
