#18617: Implement polynomial number_of_terms method (and deprecate
hamming_weight)
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Reporter: bruno | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: needs_review
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-6.8
Component: commutative | Resolution:
algebra | Merged in:
Keywords: polynomial | Reviewers:
Authors: Bruno Grenet | Work issues:
Report Upstream: N/A | Commit:
Branch: | 60ee12ccb9e642959b02199d3cec81126fff64aa
u/bruno/hamming_weight_number_of_terms| Stopgaps:
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Comment (by bruno):
Replying to [comment:6 jdemeyer]:
> Replying to [comment:5 jsrn]:
> > Sparse polynomial people sometimes call this number the "sparsity" of
the polynomial.
> My feeling is that "sparsity" should be a ratio (number of non-zero
terms divided by number of terms), different from weight.
As I wrote above, some people indeed use "sparsity" but I have also quite
often encountered a similar reaction to yours that "sparsity" evokes a
ratio. So it has the risk to be misleading.
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