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<div><h1>fc -- The faces of a complex.</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>fc(C)</tt><br/><tt>fc(C,d)</tt></div>
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<li><div class="single">Inputs:<ul><li><span><tt>C</tt>, <span>an <a href="___Complex.html">embedded complex</a></span></span></li>
<li><span><tt>d</tt>, <span>an <a href="../../Macaulay2Doc/html/___Z__Z.html">integer</a></span>, positive</span></li>
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<li><div class="single">Outputs:<ul><li><span><span>a <a href="../../Macaulay2Doc/html/___List.html">list</a></span></span></li>
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<div class="single"><h2>Description</h2>
<div><p>Returns a list with entries lists with the faces of C starting in dimension -1. If d is given then faces of dimension d are returned.</p>
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<table class="examples"><tr><td><pre>i1 : R=QQ[x_0..x_5]
o1 = R
o1 : PolynomialRing</pre>
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<tr><td><pre>i2 : C=boundaryCyclicPolytope(3,R)
o2 = 2: x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
0 1 2 0 2 3 0 3 4 0 1 5 1 2 5 2 3 5 0 4 5 3 4 5
o2 : complex of dim 2 embedded in dim 5 (printing facets)
equidimensional, simplicial, F-vector {1, 6, 12, 8, 0, 0, 0}, Euler = 1</pre>
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<tr><td><pre>i3 : fc C
o3 = {{{}}, {x , x , x , x , x , x }, {x x , x x , x x , x x , x x , x x ,
0 1 2 3 4 5 0 1 0 2 1 2 0 3 2 3 0 4
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x x , x x , x x , x x , x x , x x }, {x x x , x x x , x x x , x x x ,
3 4 0 5 1 5 2 5 3 5 4 5 0 1 2 0 2 3 0 3 4 0 1 5
------------------------------------------------------------------------
x x x , x x x , x x x , x x x }, {}, {}, {}}
1 2 5 2 3 5 0 4 5 3 4 5
o3 : List</pre>
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<tr><td><pre>i4 : fc(C,1)
o4 = {x x , x x , x x , x x , x x , x x , x x , x x , x x , x x , x x , x x }
0 1 0 2 1 2 0 3 2 3 0 4 3 4 0 5 1 5 2 5 3 5 4 5
o4 : List</pre>
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<div class="waystouse"><h2>Ways to use <tt>fc</tt> :</h2>
<ul><li>fc(Complex)</li>
<li>fc(Complex,ZZ)</li>
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