<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <!-- for emacs: -*- coding: utf-8 -*- --> <!-- Apache may like this line in the file .htaccess: AddCharset utf-8 .html --> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0 plus SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/2002/04/xhtml-math-svg/xhtml-math-svg-flat.dtd" > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> <head><title>Divide -- the class of all divide expressions</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../../Macaulay2/Style/doc.css"/> </head> <body> <table class="buttons"> <tr> <td><div><a href="_divide__By__Variable.html">next</a> | <a href="_dismiss.html">previous</a> | <a href="_divide__By__Variable.html">forward</a> | <a href="_dismiss.html">backward</a> | up | <a href="index.html">top</a> | <a href="master.html">index</a> | <a href="toc.html">toc</a> | <a href="http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Macaulay2/">Macaulay2 web site</a></div> </td> </tr> </table> <hr/> <div><h1>Divide -- the class of all divide expressions</h1> <div class="single"><h2>Description</h2> <div><tt>Divide</tt> is a type of <a href="___Expression.html" title="the class of all expressions">Expression</a> representing a quotient.</div> </div> <div class="waystouse"><h2>Functions and methods returning a divide expression :</h2> <ul><li><span>Expression / Expression, see <span><a href="___Expression.html" title="the class of all expressions">Expression</a> -- the class of all expressions</span></span></li> </ul> <h2>Methods that use a divide expression :</h2> <ul><li><span>denominator(Divide), see <span><a href="_denominator.html" title="denominator of a fraction">denominator</a> -- denominator of a fraction</span></span></li> <li><span>numerator(Divide), see <span><a href="_numerator.html" title="numerator of a fraction">numerator</a> -- numerator of a fraction</span></span></li> <li><span>reduceHilbert(Divide), see <span><a href="_reduce__Hilbert.html" title="reduce a Hilbert series expression">reduceHilbert</a> -- reduce a Hilbert series expression</span></span></li> <li><span>substitute(Divide,Thing), see <span><a href="_substitute.html" title="substituting values for variables">substitute</a> -- substituting values for variables</span></span></li> </ul> </div> <div class="waystouse"><h2>For the programmer</h2> <p>The object <a href="___Divide.html" title="the class of all divide expressions">Divide</a> is <span>a <a href="___Header__Type.html">header type</a></span>, with ancestor classes <a href="___Expression.html" title="the class of all expressions">Expression</a> < <a href="___Basic__List.html" title="the class of all basic lists">BasicList</a> < <a href="___Thing.html" title="the class of all things">Thing</a>.</p> </div> </div> </body> </html>