Re: extracting powers and coefficients from a polynomial
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- Subject: [mg49134] Re: extracting powers and coefficients from a polynomial
- From: Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 02:01:44 -0400 (EDT)
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In article <cbrcau$iqc$1 at smc.vnet.net>,
"AngleWyrm" <no_spam_anglewyrm at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I have made a formula that produces a polynomial expansion, and I wish to
> extract the powers and coefficients into a list.
>
> Expand[(Sum[x^i, {i, 6}])^3]
> 1x^3 + 3x^4 + 6x^5 + 10x^6 + 15x^7 + 21x^8 + 25x^9 + 27x^10 + 27x^11 +
> 25x^12
> + 21x^13 + 15x^14 + 10x^15 + 6x^16 + 3x^17 + 1x^18
>
> How do I make a table of the powers and coefficents?
> 3, 1
> 4, 3
> 5, 6
> 6, 10
> ....
Pattern-matching is an easy way of doing this:
poly = Expand[(Sum[x^i, {i, 6}])^3]
List @@ poly /. c_. x^n_. -> {n, c}
Cheers,
Paul
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