> Can you tell from this documentation what the function will compute 
> prior to running it? I can't. 
>

It takes I as the generators of the ideal and uses that as the reduction 
set.

>
> I agree with Daniel: this function does something useful and sensible 
> when I is an ideal, so it shouldn't be underscored. 
>
> But I have no idea of what it does when I is a list, except give an 
> undefined result congruent to self modulo the ideal generated by I. So 
> I again agree with Daniel: if we can figure out what this function 
> does, we should document it better. And I would go as far as adding 
> that if we can't figure it out, we should forbid list input. 
>
> What it does is probably do the reduction using the list in reverse order 
for this case. As previously mentioned, because it is not a Gröbner basis, 
there is no guarantee of a canonical result. So IMO it does what the 
documentation says it does.

Best,
Travis

 

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