Re: pattern bugs and comment on intuitive syntax for the New Year
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- Subject: [mg115245] Re: pattern bugs and comment on intuitive syntax for the New Year
- From: Richard Fateman <fateman at eecs.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 18:52:39 -0500 (EST)
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On 1/4/2011 1:28 AM, Andrzej Kozlowski wrote: > Well, I guess it's time for a little "summing up" of my own ;-) > ... Your false assumptions, assertions, and observations are not worth responding to, on the whole. I will point out that if CoefficientList[expr,x] can pick out the terms of expr, it is unfortunate that PolynomialQ[expr,x] does not know that expr is a is a polynomial. Undoubtedly this can be claimed to be a feature. RJF