<?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>exponents -- list the exponents in a polynomial</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../../Macaulay2/Style/doc.css"/> </head> <body> <table class="buttons"> <tr> <td><div><a href="___Expression.html">next</a> | <a href="_expm1.html">previous</a> | <a href="___Expression.html">forward</a> | <a href="_expm1.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>exponents -- list the exponents in a polynomial</h1> <div class="single"><h2>Description</h2> <div><tt>exponents m</tt> -- for a monomial <tt>m</tt> provides the list of exponents.<br/><tt>exponents f</tt> -- for a polynomial <tt>f</tt> provides a list whose elements are the lists of exponents of the terms of <tt>f</tt>.<p/> <table class="examples"><tr><td><pre>i1 : R = ZZ/101[x,y,z];</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i2 : exponents (f = x^2 - 7 + x*y*z^11 + y) o2 = {{1, 1, 11}, {2, 0, 0}, {0, 1, 0}, {0, 0, 0}} o2 : List</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i3 : leadMonomial f 11 o3 = x*y*z o3 : R</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i4 : exponents leadMonomial f o4 = {{1, 1, 11}} o4 : List</pre> </td></tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="waystouse"><h2>Ways to use <tt>exponents</tt> :</h2> <ul><li>exponents(MonoidElement)</li> <li>exponents(RingElement)</li> </ul> </div> </div> </body> </html>