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Radical

radical of an ideal
Syntax 

Radical(I:IDEAL):IDEAL

Description
This function computes the radical of I using the algorithm described in the paper

M. Caboara, P.Conti and C. Traverso: Yet Another Ideal Decomposition Algorithm. Proc. AAECC-12, pp 39-54, 1997, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, n.1255 Springer-Verlag.

NOTE: at the moment, this implementation works only if the coefficient ring is the rationals or has large enough characteristic.

Example 
  Use R ::= QQ[x,y];
  I := Ideal(x,y)^3;
  Radical(I);
Ideal(y, x)
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