Re: Ordering polynomials from highest to lowest order
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- Subject: [mg25945] Re: [mg25933] Ordering polynomials from highest to lowest order
- From: BobHanlon at aol.com
- Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 02:40:21 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
In a message dated 11/9/2000 4:31:27 AM, krautschikc at intel.co.jp writes:
>I have a module that generates the first 37 Zernike polynomials. The output
>looks something like this:
>
>zernike[37] = 1 - 42r^2 +420r^4 -1680r^6 +3150r^8 -2772r^10 +924r^12
>
>I would like the ordering of all my polynomials to go from highest order
>to lowest. So the output I like to have is the following:
>
>z37= 924r^12 - 2772r^10 + 3150r^8 -1680r^6 +420r^4 - 42r^2 +1
>
>Perhaps the collect command can be used to accomplish this but I am not
>sure how since collect seems to order from lowest to highest order.
>
With version 4, either set Default Output FormatType to TraditionalForm or
explicitly convert to TraditionalForm on display.
(z37 = 924r^12 - 2772r^10 + 3150r^8 - 1680r^6 + 420r^4 - 42r^2 +
1) // TraditionalForm
Bob Hanlon