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Coefficients of polynomial of fixed degree [closed]

asked 2022-01-19 12:04:24 +0100

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updated 2022-01-19 12:30:00 +0100

How can we extract the coefficient of any polynomial as a fixed degree polynomial? For example, if we have $a=2+3*x$, then a.polynomial().coefficient() will extract (2,3), but I need the polynomial of degree 3, and the output will be (2,3,0,0).

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answered 2022-01-19 12:32:37 +0100

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updated 2022-01-19 12:32:59 +0100

If a lives in a polynomial ring rather than in the symbolic ring, then a[k] extracts the coefficient of x^k of a, regardless of the degree of a.

Example:

sage: x = polygen(ZZ)
sage: a = 2 + 3*x
sage: [a[k] for k in range(4)]
[2, 3, 0, 0]
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