Re: How do you get polynomials listed in order of decreasing exponent?
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- Subject: [mg40570] Re: How do you get polynomials listed in order of decreasing exponent?
- From: a_cjones at hotmail.com (cdj)
- Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 03:40:17 -0400 (EDT)
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Dr Bob <majort at cox-internet.com> wrote in message news:<b70ccd$89p$1 at smc.vnet.net>... > There are ways to do that, but why? > > Either way, it's the same polynomial, and you can learn to like the one you > see all the time. lol - few things are more infuriating than asking how to achieve a certain effect and getting a response of the form "Only a jackass would want to achieve that effect" - lol - and to think: a few minutes ago I was taken with how nice/friendly/easy going/unjudgmental this newsgroup was.. - lol In any case: I've got like a jillion worked high school-level algebra problems that I have to check. The people who worked these problems wrote the polynomial answers in descending format. Rather than work the problems myself, I'd like to streamline the process, and have Mathematica just give me the answer. Time is saved only if the polynomial Mathematica gives me is in the same form as the polynomials given to me by the people (or very nearly). Mathematica does not by default sort polynomials the way people do, and I didn't know how to get Mathematica to do this. Therefore I asked. To everyone else who answered my question without requiring justification/proof-of-concept/security clearance: Thanks very much, it's apppreciated! cdj
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- How do you get polynomials listed in order of decreasing exponent?