Algebraic Integers
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- Subject: [mg28504] Algebraic Integers
- From: Konstantin L Kouptsov <klk206 at nyu.edu>
- Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 21:03:20 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: New York University
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I am doing the algebraic manipulations with the numbers a+b*p, where a,b are integers and p is essentially the irrational number (say Sqrt[2]). There is a number of rules allowing manipulation of the numbers without referring to the value of p (for example: p/: 1/p=p/2;) I want function Min[] to calculate the minimum of the set of algebraic integers (a+b*p) the way it works for ordinary numbers, but giving the answer in algebraic form: In:= Min[3 p - 2, 5 p - 4] Out:= 3 p -2 Is there any _elegant_ solution for this problem?
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