On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 6:56 PM, kcrisman kcris...@gmail.com wrote:
If I make a polynomial ring using
sage: b = PolynomialRing(ZZ, 'x')
I get some odd behavior. Namely,
sage: bool(b(x)==x)
True
sage: b(x)
x
sage: type(b(x))
something about element of the ring
sage: type(x)
symbolic
On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 18:56:14 -0700 (PDT)
kcrisman kcris...@gmail.com wrote:
sage: a = FractionField(PolynomialRing(ZZ, 'x'))
sage: a(1/x)
weird error that seems to imply it has not coerced x to the
polynomial ring
Did I do something wrong, or is this a bug? Because of the initial
If I make a polynomial ring using
sage: b = PolynomialRing(ZZ, 'x')
I get some odd behavior. Namely,
sage: bool(b(x)==x)
True
sage: b(x)
x
sage: type(b(x))
something about element of the ring
sage: type(x)
symbolic expression
This isn't really that odd, but still I don't know whether it is