Re: change of a coefficient in a polynomial
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- Subject: [mg44790] Re: change of a coefficient in a polynomial
- From: drbob at bigfoot.com (Bobby R. Treat)
- Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 11:38:14 -0500 (EST)
- References: <bpurvg$oc7$1@smc.vnet.net>
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
I had an error in my earlier post:
ClearAll[changeCoefficient]
changeCoefficient[poly_, x_, n_, target_] :=
Collect[poly + (target[Coefficient[poly, x, n]] -
Coefficient[poly, x, n])*x^n, x]
p[x_] := c[0] + c[1]*x + c[2]*x^2
changeCoefficient[p[x], x, 0, -#1 & ]
changeCoefficient[p[x], x, 1, 1 & ]
changeCoefficient[p[x], x, 2, Sin]
changeCoefficient[p[x], x, 3, f]
-c[0] + x*c[1] + x^2*c[2]
x + c[0] + x^2*c[2]
c[0] + x*c[1] + x^2*Sin[c[2]]
c[0] + x*c[1] + x^2*c[2] + x^3*f[0]
Bobby
Paolo Bientinesi <pauldj at cs.utexas.edu> wrote in message news:<bpurvg$oc7$1 at smc.vnet.net>...
> Second question about polynomials:
>
> assume you are given a polynomial
>
> p[x_] := c[0] + c[1] x + c[2] x^2 ....
>
> and you want to generate a polynomial p1[x] from p[x]
> changing one coefficient only, like:
>
> p1[x_] := -c[0] + c[1] x + c[2] x^2
>
>
> Is there any other way other than the obvious CoefficientList
> solution?
>
> Thanks