Re: Removing constant multiples from polynomials
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- Subject: [mg73417] Re: [mg73383] Removing constant multiples from polynomials
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
- Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:53:49 -0500 (EST)
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On 15 Feb 2007, at 10:55, Azumanga wrote: > I am working on an algorithm which manipulates sets of polynomials. > Often it produces (after an application of FullSimplify) polynomials > like: > > 1276(x-1)(y-2)/397 > > I'm only interested in the solutions to the polynomial, so to me this > is "equivalent" to: > > (x-1)(y-2) > > As a short-term solution I call "GroebnerBasis" on the single > polynomial, which seems to perform this simplification. However is > there a simpler method? > > Thank you, > > Chris > > GroebnerBasis does it because it outputs a reduced Groebner basis of the polynomial ideal containing your polynomial(s). I can't imagine what you can possibly mean by a "simpler method" in this case? Both in terms of the length of the code you need to write and of the actual algorithm that is used I don't think there is any genuinely "simpler way". Of course there is a practically countless number of programs you could write that yourself that will do it; for example: Times @@ (Power @@@ DeleteCases[ FactorList[1276(x - 1)(y - 2)/3], _?(FreeQ[#, x | y] &)]) but you can hardly call this "simpler". Andrzej Kozlowski
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