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the length of an object
This function returns the
length of an object, as summarized in
the table below:
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| type | length |
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| IDEAL | length of Gens(E) |
| INT | 1 |
| LIST | number of items in the list |
| MAT | number of rows of the matrix |
| MODULE | length of Gens(E) |
| POLY | number of monomials |
| RATFUN | if E=F/G, then Len(E)=Len(F)+Len(G) |
| VECTOR | number of components |
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The operator Len
Use R ::= QQ[x,y];
L := ["a",2,3,[4,5]];
Len(L);
4
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Len(L[1]);
1
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Len(L[4]);
2
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Len(x^2 + xy + y^2 + xy^4);
4
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Len((x^2+y^2)/(x+y+y^2));
5
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Len((x+y) - (xy/x));
1
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Len(Ideal(x,x^2));
2
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The function
Size
returns the amount of memory used by the object.