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- From: kuwata@triples.math.mcgill.ca (Masato Kuwata)
- Subject: "factor" in Maple V
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.180430.15241@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 18:04:30 GMT
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- Could someone tell what's wrong with this?
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- |\^/| MAPLE V
- ._|\| |/|_. Copyright (c) 1981-1990 by the University of Waterloo.
- \ MAPLE / All rights reserved. MAPLE is a registered trademark of
- <____ ____> Waterloo Maple Software.
- | Type ? for help.
- > P:=193439*t^2 - 74110*t^3 - 223858*t^4 - 74110*t^5 + 193439*t^6 + 197465*t^7 + 51743*t^8 + 197465*t + 51743;
- > 2 3 4 5 6 7
- P := 193439 t - 74110 t - 223858 t - 74110 t + 193439 t + 197465 t
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- + 51743 t + 197465 t + 51743
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- > factor(P);
- Error, (in factor/combfact) modp1: invalid arguments to function Degree
- _____________________________________________________________________________
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- Thanks in advance.
-
- Masato Kuwata
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