Kevin Ryde on Sun, 20 Sep 2015 13:58:45 +0200 |
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discriminant of quad |
On reading most of the docs I couldn't tell the best way to get back the discriminant of a t_QUAD. The closest I found was charpoly() after some dividing. In the code I see poldisc(w) does it for complex and quad, or w.disc member func for quad. Are they meant for use that way? I struck this when using some sqrt3i=quadgen(-12) complex numbers and had the urge to pick out the imaginary part inclusive of its quad factor sqrt3=quadgen(12), so for example my_imag(123+456*sqrt3i) == 456*sqrt3. Perhaps there's a direct imag() variant like that. Of course knowing I'm sqrt3 everywhere it could be hard coded but a little generality is nice.