On 9/13/11 4:24 PM, Rolandb wrote:
On 13 sep, 22:53, Maarten Derickx<[email protected]> wrote:
I think it is consequent. list(factor(n)) just gives a list of tuples (p,e)
where p is a prime dividing n and e is it's exponent. Since there are no
primes dividing 1 the list is empty.
Thanks for the swift reply!
However, not always one knows that the element equals 1 as it could be
the outcome of a formulea. Is it an idea to introduce a boolean in
order to yield [1,1] when wanted?
Thus factor(element,passone=True).
Do you have an example of when you would want list(factor(1)) to return
[(1,1)]? It's inconsistent with the documentation and the idea of the
factor function, so I'm wondering if there may be a better way to deal
with whatever situation you are thinking of.
Thanks,
Jason
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