Re: discriminant of quad

[Karim Belabas <Karim.Belabas@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

* Kevin Ryde [2015-09-20 13:58]:
> 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?

Yes.

I made the mistake of renaming disc -> poldisc a long time ago, even
though it had applied e.g. to t_QUADs or t_QF[IR] since the dawn of time.

w.disc was added comparatively recentely (circa 1997...).

But I see none of these two are documented, I'll fix that.

Thanks !

    K.B.
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