On Aug 24, 10:51 am, Jason Grout <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 08/24/2010 09:03 AM, kcrisman wrote:
>  > Dear sage-devel,
>  >
>  > I have two things I just want confirmation of before I file tickets -
>  > such as an alternate way/workaround to do these things which I have
>  > missed.  Thanks for any replies.
>  >
>  > - kcrisman
>  >
>  > 1. There is no way to get a symbolic interpolated polynomial de novo
>  > without going through polynomial rings, e.g. all these steps:
>  >
>  > pts = [(1,2),(2,3),(3,2),(4,3),(5,2),(6,3)]
>  > R.<x>=QQ[]
>  > f = R.lagrange_polynomial(pts)
>  > SR(f)
>  >

> Yes.  You could define your own function :) 
> (seehttp://sage.cs.drake.edu/home/pub/2/, for example).  Also, mpmath and
> numpy/scipy can get numerical values for the coefficients, I believe.
> Maxima also can construct a lagrange polynomial (load the 'interpol'
> package)
> sage: maxima.load('interpol')
> "/home/jason/sage-4.4.2/local/share/maxima/5.20.1/share/numeric/interpol.ma c"
> sage: maxima.lagrange([[1,2],[3,4]])
> -x+2*(x-1)+3

Okay, okay!  I just wanted to make sure.  Wrapping one or both of
these should be sufficient.  For tomorrow I just hacked it :)

>
>  > 2. If one has a non-symbolic polynomial currently, it won't plot with
>  > the new plotting syntax.
>  >
>  > plot(f,0,5) # works, old-school Sage
>  > plot(f,(x,0,5)) # doesn't work, new-school Sage
>  > plot(f,x,0,5) # doesn't work, though sort of makes sense it shouldn't
>  > since x isn't a symbolic variable now... ?
>  >
>  > If there was a direct interpolated polynomial for SR I wouldn't have
>  > noticed the second one.
>  >
>
> This seems like a bug, if 'f' is a Sage polynomial and 'x' is the
> corresponding variable.
>

Thanks.

- kcrisman

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