I'm trying to implement the polynomial division given by the pseudocode in Wikipedia but I'm getting some weird error that says
AttributeError: 'sage.rings.fraction_field_element.FractionFieldElement_1poly_field' object has no attribute 'degree'
I think it's some coercion error but I'm new to sage so I wouldn't know.
The code:
x=var('x')
P.<x>=PolynomialRing(QQ)
def div(p,q):
if q==0:
return("NaN")
elif q!=0:
l=0
r=p
while r!=0 and q.degree()<=r.degree():
t=r.leading_coefficient()/q.leading_coefficient()
m=x^r.degree()/x^q.degree()
l=l+t*m
r=r-(t*m*q)
print(l,r) #I was seeing when the code failed
return(l,r)
When I call div(x^2-1,x-1) it prints x x-1 but then doesn't do the next step and shows the error.
