On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Martin Albrecht
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 31 March 2009, William Stein wrote:
>> R.ngens()
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:58 AM, [email protected]
>>
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Dear all,
>> > I am new to Sage and after reading the help, I couldn't find a
>> > function that from a multivariate polynomial
>> > returns the number of variables.
>> > if
>> > R=PolynomialRing(ZZ, 20, "z",order="deglex")
>> > f=R.0*R.1
>
> I think he wants:
>
>   f.nvariables()

Ah, that works.  Also one has:

sage: R=PolynomialRing(ZZ, 20, "z",order="deglex")
sage: f = R.0
sage: f.nvariables()
1
sage: f.parent().ngens()
20


William

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