<?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>simplexDim -- The dimension of a face inside the vertex simplex.</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../../Macaulay2/Style/doc.css"/> </head> <body> <table class="buttons"> <tr> <td><div><a href="_simplex__Ring.html">next</a> | <a href="_simplex.html">previous</a> | <a href="_simplex__Ring.html">forward</a> | <a href="_simplex.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>simplexDim -- The dimension of a face inside the vertex simplex.</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>simplexDim(F)</tt></div> </dd></dl> </div> </li> <li><div class="single">Inputs:<ul><li><span><tt>F</tt>, <span>a <a href="___Face.html">face</a></span></span></li> </ul> </div> </li> <li><div class="single">Outputs:<ul><li><span><span>an <a href="../../Macaulay2Doc/html/___Z__Z.html">integer</a></span>, bigger or equal to -1</span></li> </ul> </div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="single"><h2>Description</h2> <div><p>The dimension of a face inside the vertex simplex, i.e., the number of <a href="_vert.html" title="The vertices of a face or complex.">vert</a> F minus 1.</p> <div/> <table class="examples"><tr><td><pre>i1 : R=QQ[x_0..x_4];</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i2 : C=simplex R;</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i3 : F=C.fc_2_0 o3 = x x x 0 1 2 o3 : face with 3 vertices</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i4 : simplexDim F o4 = 2</pre> </td></tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="single"><h2>See also</h2> <ul><li><span><a href="_vert.html" title="The vertices of a face or complex.">vert</a> -- The vertices of a face or complex.</span></li> <li><span><a href="_dim_lp__Face_rp.html" title="Compute the dimension of a face.">dim(Face)</a> -- Compute the dimension of a face.</span></li> </ul> </div> <div class="waystouse"><h2>Ways to use <tt>simplexDim</tt> :</h2> <ul><li>simplexDim(Face)</li> </ul> </div> </div> </body> </html>