Extracting monomials from a polynomial

[Anish Muttreja]

Apparently not always ... I have seen expand leave me with a factored 
expression like
(x+1)*(x+2) e.g.

At least that was occasionally the case with 1.0.8.  I switched to 
1.2.0 and the problem seems to have disappeared...
Might have been a bug in my program ... thanks for the reply... I was 
just a little unsure about the semantics. Anyway it works now !

Anish

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On Apr 11, 2004, at 6:45 AM, Christian Bauer wrote:

> Hi!
>
> On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 10:32:18PM -0400, Anish Muttreja wrote:
>> I need to extract each monomial from the polynomial.
>>
>> Until now , I have been getting by only dealing with the case where 
>> the
>> top level class is "add",
>
> Is there much more to it? After calling expand(), the polynomial is 
> either
> a monomial or a sum of monomials.
>
> Bye,
> Christian
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