polynomial, an Octave code which adds, multiplies, differentiates, evaluates and prints multivariate polynomials in a space of M dimensions.
Any polynomial in M variables can be written as a linear combination of monomials in M variables. The "total degree" of the polynomial is the maximum of the degrees of the monomials that it comprises. For instance, a polynomial in M = 2 variables of total degree 3 might have the form:
p(x,y) = c(0,0) x^0 y^0
+ c(1,0) x^1 y^0 + c(0,1) x^0 y^1
+ c(2,0) x^2 y^0 + c(1,1) x^1 y^1 + c(0,2) x^0 y^2
+ c(3,0) x^3 y^0 + c(2,1) x^2 y^1 + c(1,2) x^1 y^2 + c(0,3) x^0 y^3
The monomials in M variables can be regarded as
a natural basis for the polynomials in M variables.
When listing the monomials that form a polynomial, it is useful to have an ordering that organizes them. One natural ordering can be illustrated for the 3-dimensional case:
1
x, y, z
x^2, xy, xz, y^2, yz, z^2
x^3, x^2y, x^2z, xy^2, xyz, xz^2, y^3, y^2z, yz^2, z^3
x^4, x^3y, ...
Here, a monomial precedes another if it has a lower degree.
If the monomials have the same degree, then a monomial precedes another
if its exponent vector lexically precedes that of the other. In other
words, we compare the two exponent vectors, reading from left to right,
looking for the first location where the exponents differ. The monomial
with the higher exponent at this point precedes the other.
The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the MIT license
polynomial is available in a C version and a C++ version and a Fortran90 version and a MATLAB version and an Octave version and a Python version.
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