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Support #1404

Which commands should "terms" be a keyword for?

Added by John Abbott about 4 years ago. Updated about 4 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
John Abbott
Category:
Manual/documentation
Target version:
CoCoA-5.3.0
Start date:
28 Jan 2020
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Estimated time:
0.75 h
Spent time:
0.70 h

Description

What do you expect the CoCoA-5 manual to respond to the query:

?terms

Currently, it gives the page for NumTerms.
Probably it should also mention support, monomials, and maybe coefficients?

I notice that ?term gives a lot more (but neither support nor monomials).

Related issues

Related to CoCoA-5 - Support #1400: Title of manual entry: tutorial on operations on polynomialsClosed2020-01-22

History

#1 Updated by John Abbott about 4 years ago

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One possibility is that ?terms produces the page for NumTerms, but that then in the "see also" section there are references to other relevant pages.
Or we could add terms as a keyword to various other pages, so that ?terms then produces just a list of those pages...

#2 Updated by Anna Maria Bigatti about 4 years ago

hmmm, you are right.
"terms" should be in the keys for support, monomials, coefficients, at least.

#3 Updated by John Abbott about 4 years ago

  • Related to Support #1400: Title of manual entry: tutorial on operations on polynomials added

#4 Updated by John Abbott about 4 years ago

  • % Done changed from 10 to 50

This is what I get at the moment:

>>> ?terms
--============( NumTerms )=============--
.... entry for NumTerms ....
--> See also:
 ? support
 ? coefficients
 ? monomials
 ? len

NOTE I have just added also Tutorial: polynomials to the "see also" list :-)

#5 Updated by John Abbott about 4 years ago

  • Status changed from In Progress to Feedback
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I think it is OK now. It's just a little odd that len appears in the list, but this is probably to help those porting old CoCoA-4 code (where len was used instead of NumTerms).

#6 Updated by John Abbott about 4 years ago

  • Status changed from Feedback to Closed
  • % Done changed from 90 to 100
  • Estimated time set to 0.75 h

Anna accepts. Closing.

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