Questions tagged [polynomials]
Questions on the functionality operating on polynomials
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The ordering problem of multivariate polynomials
This is the result of Taylor expansion of a binary function
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A problem with `Eliminate`.`
Consider this expression:
Eliminate[a x + b y == 0 && c x + d y == 0, {x, y}]
Mathematica returns ...
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Why is the result of MMA polynomial mod factor different from that of this article? [closed]
Why the polynomial mod factor of MMA is not the same as the result of this SE answer:
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How can I decompose polynomials in a certain way?
I' ve learned that the following examples can be used to decompose a
factor in this way
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Finding a Laurent polynomial that behaves at a pole like a given function [migrated]
I need to find a polynomial $P$ such that $P(1/x)$ behaves like given function $f(x)$ at zero (their difference vanishes), even if $f(x)$ has a pole at $0$ or unknown order.
P.S. I need to find a ...
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How to write Horner's Algorithm in Mathematica? [closed]
The pseudocode we were given is:
Right now I have:
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How would I solve this math problem on Mathematica?
$(3t^2 + 5t + a ) (4t^2 + bt - 2) = 12t^4 +26t^3 - 8t^2 - 16t + 6$
What is a + b?
The answer would be:
$6=-2a$
$a=-3$
$-16t=(5t\cdot-2)+a\cdot bt\Longrightarrow-16t=-10t+(-3)bt\Longrightarrow b=...
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How does MMA calculate the Galois group of a polynomial over the rational number field? [closed]
How MMA calculates the Galois group of the following polynomials over the rational number field
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Taking real number from polynomial equation [closed]
Hi I have a set of 4 different solution that was solved using a 4th order polynomial equation.
We can see that the set of real number solution occurred in set 2 and 4 from the solutions. See code : ...
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MMA has an error in calculating the minimum polynomial of a rational number
The minimum polynomial of Power[2, (3)^-1] (-(1/2) + (I Sqrt[3])/2) Python minimal_polynomial function can get the result as ...
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Testing whether polynomial is in algebra of bunch of given polynomials
I know that mathematica can check whether one polynomial is in the ideal of a given collection of polynomials, but I was wondering whether it can check if a polynomial is in the algebra of a given ...
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Solutions given by WolframAlpha [closed]
When I try to solve, the following equation over the integers using WolframAlpha:
$$x^2(1+x)=y(3y-1)\tag1$$
WolframAlpha gives me the following solutions $(x,y)$:
$$(-1,0),(0,0),(1,1),(4,-5),(6,-9)\...
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Partial monomial pattern matching
Is there an elegant way to "partially" match monomials in a polynomial expression?
Let me explain what I mean by "partially" with an example. Suppose I have
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Using the solve function for big numbers, getting a failure now
When I try to solve:
Solve[y^2==441+48*x*(1+x)(-13+16*x)&&1100*10^9<=y<=1200*10^9&&x>=2,{y,x},Integers]
My code runs for 169 seconds and ...
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Taking Real, Im, and Abs of polynomial fractions
I want to find out real imaginary and Abs of polynomial fractions composed of real-valued variables.
For example, consider we have a polynomial fraction
$f=\dfrac{a_1 +b_1 i }{a_2 +b_2 i }$ where $...
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Smooth approximation near a non differentiable point
Let $f:\mathbb{R}_+\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ be a function differentiable for $x>0$ but non differentiable at $x=0$ (for instance $f=\sqrt{\cdot}$)
and $g$ be a polynomial function.
I know how to ...
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How to invert Expand
How do I invert Expand?
I have
lis={1 + x^2, 2 + 2 x^2 + x^4, 5 + 8 x^2 + 8 x^4 + 4 x^6 + x^8}
and want to get
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Solving a fifth order polynomial with changing values of coefficients [closed]
I have a fifth order polynomial in x whose coefficients depend on a certain variable k. Now, I want to find the real roots of that polynomial for each value of k, say from 0.1 to 2 in steps of 0.05 ...
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How to solve the equation of polynomial with uncertain degrees?
Consider the following equation
\begin{equation}
\frac{g^{a_{1}}+g^{a_{2}}}{\left(1-g^{a_{1}}\right)\left(1-g^{a_{2}}\right)}+\frac{g^{c_{1}}+g^{c_{2}}}{\left(1-g^{c_{1}}\right)\left(1-g^{c_{2}}\right)...
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Polynomial transformation coefficients
Given a 3D polynomial of degree $m$ and coefficients $a_{ijk}^0$, $$p(x_0, y_0, x_0) = \sum_{i,j,k}^{m} a_{ijk}^0 x_0^i y_0^j z_0^k, \quad i + j + k \le m,$$
I want to make the transformation:
$$x_0 =...
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Root finding over finite field extension
I'd like to know if there exists any method on Mathematica, third-party coded resource or library that can compute roots of a polynomial over an extension $\mathbb{E}$ where $E=F_p[x]/f(x)$ and $f(x)$ ...
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Factoring after polynomial long division [closed]
I have gotten the code to do polynomial long division, but I want my students to also factor the solution if possible.
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How can Cases detect x as Times[1,x]
I'm trying to use Cases to extract the coefficients of a polynomial
$$x^5+6x^4+2x^3-8x^2+x+10$$
I was hoping I can first find the coefficients of the $x,\,x^2,\,...,...
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Simplifying polynomial in one variable by substitution
I want to simplify a polynomial in variable $x$ with integer coefficients by substitution $x\to{x}/d$ so that the coefficients become smallest possible integers.
Input:
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Editing the Horner's method demonstration
The following code is from the Mathematica demonstration of Horner's method, I am wondering if anyone can help me remove the 2nd row in the table of the demonstration
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How can I find a parametric equation for an implicit surface?
I need a parametric equation for the Taubin heart surface, which is defined in implicit form. I asked a similar question in math branch, but didn't get an answer.
This is the implicit form:
$$\\\...
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IrreduciblePolynomialQ[] = True; Factor[] doesn't do anything [closed]
b[x_] := (((x^3) (y^2)) - ((3 x^2) (y)) - ((2 x) (y^3)) + (6 y^2))
fg = Factor[b[x]]
IrreduciblePolynomialQ[fg]
fg gives me (x^2-2y)y(-3+xy)
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Arrange a polynominal
I have a complex polynomial in more than ten line. I want to rearrange it by the power of another polynomial. For example, I have a powers of (1-A(x)/x^2) as a factor in it, and I want to sort the ...
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n-th derivative of an arbitrary polynomial / power series
How can I tell mathematica to give me the symbolic derivative of the following sum
$$ \frac{\partial^n}{\partial x^n}\sum_{j=0}^N\gamma_jx^j=\sum_{j=n}^N\frac{j!}{(j-n)!} \gamma_jx^{j-n} $$
I only get ...
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What is the algorithm used by SolveAlways function?
The syntax of SolveAlways function is
SolveAlways[eqns, vars]
For example,
SolveAlways[ax + b == 1, {x}]
Mathematica ...
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Solve for coefficients to express polynomial in terms of another polynomial
If I have a polynomial, say $p(x) = 6x^3 - x^2 + x$, and I want to express that in terms of a sum of other polynomials, how may I do that in Mathematica? Specifically I would like to say that $$p(x) = ...
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Solving the issues related to the Coefficient command?
I am trying to extract coefficients of a complex expression which is a polynomial in two variables $x,y$ and has max order up to $x^{18},y^{18}$. I am trying to get the coefficient of say $x$ , $x^2$, ...
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How to check if 0 polynomial lies in span of some polynomials?
I have lot of polynomials like this
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Finding a coefficient that satisfies and intersecting condition
Suppose I have the following polynomial:
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Transform rational equations to polynomial equations
I have a list of rational equations and I would like to convert it to a list of polynomial equations. I know that none of the variables and none of the denominators could ever be 0.
So far I have ...
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Is it possible to make Decompose work with coefficients containing radicals?
It appears that Decompose works reliably only on polynomials with integer coefficients, although it seems to be not mentioned in the docs. Can I make it work (or ...
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Better fit for points with exaggerated deviations
I used the InterpolatingPolynomial function to get a polynomial that meets my points.
But I noticed that there is a deviation in the final intervals.
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Solving a polynomial equation involving gamma function
I am trying to solve an equation having degenerate limit of Fermi-Dirac integral.
My code basically is
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Factor to measure polynomial fit
I am trying to use InterpolatingPolynomial to fit a polynomial to a given set of points representing a relationship between two variables. I would like to find a ...
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Formatting results of a polynomial long division (Extension for finite fields)
I've just read Formatting results of a polynomial long division with great interest. For my teaching purposes it would be great to enable the code given in that post to treat polynomial division with ...
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How to transform polynomial to differential operator?
How to transform the multiariate polynomial to corresponding differential operator?
For instance, for a polynomial $ \frac{1}{2} z_1^2 z_3^6 $ is the goal operator $ \frac{\partial ^8}{\partial ^2x_1\...
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expression containing radicals of imaginary numbers
I can't bear an expression containing radicals of imaginary numbers,
in case it can be expressed as in terms of radicals of real numbers only.
For example, I can't bear the expression
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Optimal way to extract “positive part” of a multivariate polynomial
I've got multivariate polynomials with numerical coefficients, like e. g.
p - s - p q^2 s^2 + 3 r s^2 + 3 r^2 s^2 - p r^2 s^2 - 2 q r^2 s^2 - 2 r^3 s^2 + s^3
and ...
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Array of polynomials
So I have a big list of 75 polynomials which I need to apply a sequence of operations to.
My original program (an extract of which is below) worked fine:
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Plotting Chebyshev polynomials using PolarPlot and FilledCurve
This question is related to this answer.
What should I change in the following code to replace black color with blue color in the second image?
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Generalize polynomial coefficients from multiple equations
I have following equations:
$$\frac{1}{((a_1 - 1) f + 1)} + \frac{1}{((a_2 - 1) f + 1)} -k = 0$$
$$\frac{1}{((a_1 - 1) f + 1)} + \frac{1}{((a_1 - 1) f + 1)} + ... + \frac{1}{((a_n - 1) f + 1)} -k = 0$...
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NSolve gives weird result for $n=101$ with NSolve[$\frac{d}{dx}\prod \limits_{k=1}^n (x-k)$==0,x]
Coming from this post: What would be the roots of the derivate of this polynom I did a quick check with Mathematica and arrived at a wrong result. I was initially confused but chose to trust ...
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Mathematica function equivalent to MATLAB's residue function (partial fraction expansion)
I am looking for a Mathematica function equivalent to MATLAB's residue function.
If there is no Mathematica equivalent, I would like to write a function that given ...
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Turning arguments into exponents
I'd like to replace every instance of L[stuff], e.g.,
L[-1,-2,-2]
in an expression with ...
