<?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>QQ * Polyhedron -- rescales a polyhedron by a given positive factor</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../../Macaulay2/Style/doc.css"/> </head> <body> <table class="buttons"> <tr> <td><div><a href="_rays.html">next</a> | <a href="_pyramid.html">previous</a> | <a href="_rays.html">forward</a> | <a href="_pyramid.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>QQ * Polyhedron -- rescales a polyhedron by a given positive factor</h1> <div class="single"><h2>Synopsis</h2> <ul><li><div class="list"><dl class="element"><dt class="heading">Usage: </dt><dd class="value"><div><tt> Q = k * P</tt></div> </dd></dl> </div> </li> <li><span>Operator: <a href="../../Macaulay2Doc/html/__st.html" title="a binary operator, usually used for multiplication">*</a></span></li> <li><div class="single">Inputs:<ul><li><span><tt>k</tt>, <span>a <a href="../../Macaulay2Doc/html/___Q__Q.html">rational number</a></span>, <a href="../../Macaulay2Doc/html/___Z__Z.html" title="the class of all integers">ZZ</a> or <a href="../../Macaulay2Doc/html/___Q__Q.html" title="the class of all rational numbers">QQ</a>, strictly positive</span></li> <li><span><tt>P</tt>, <span>a <a href="___Polyhedron.html">convex polyhedron</a></span></span></li> </ul> </div> </li> <li><div class="single">Outputs:<ul><li><span><tt>Q</tt>, <span>a <a href="___Polyhedron.html">convex polyhedron</a></span></span></li> </ul> </div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="single"><h2>Description</h2> <div><p/> Rescales the <a href="___Polyhedron.html" title="the class of all convex polyhedra">Polyhedron</a> by the strictly positive factor <tt>k</tt>.<table class="examples"><tr><td><pre>i1 : P = crossPolytope 3 o1 = {ambient dimension => 3 } dimension of lineality space => 0 dimension of polyhedron => 3 number of facets => 8 number of rays => 0 number of vertices => 6 o1 : Polyhedron</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i2 : k = 3 o2 = 3</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i3 : Q = k * P o3 = {ambient dimension => 3 } dimension of lineality space => 0 dimension of polyhedron => 3 number of facets => 8 number of rays => 0 number of vertices => 6 o3 : Polyhedron</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i4 : vertices Q o4 = | -3 3 0 0 0 0 | | 0 0 -3 3 0 0 | | 0 0 0 0 -3 3 | 3 6 o4 : Matrix QQ <--- QQ</pre> </td></tr> </table> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>