Re: polrecip for a constant polymomial

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

Fixed in 'master'. Thanks for the report !

Cheers,

    K.B.

* Dirk Laurie [2018-02-14 05:43]:
> It is not merely inconvenient, it is inconsistent and may even qualify
> as being a bug.
> 
> Surely the definition of polrecip should be equivalent to
> 
>    polrecip(p) = subst(p,x,1/x)*x^poldegree(p)
> 
> 2018-02-14 0:41 GMT+02:00 Jacques Gélinas <jacquesg00@hotmail.com>:
> > It is inconvenient to have to add code to handle constant polynomials.
> > Why not return the constant itself ?
> >
> > # polrecip(2+0*x)
> > %1 = 2
> > # polrecip(2)
> >   ***   at top-level: polrecip(2)
> >   ***                          ^-----------
> >   *** polrecip: incorrect type in polrecip (t_INT).
> >
> > Jacques Gélinas, Ottawa
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