[Numpy-discussion] Polynomial evaluation inconsistencies

[Charles R Harris]

On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 4:42 PM, Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris at gmail.com
> wrote:

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> On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 3:41 PM, Eric Wieser <wieser.eric+numpy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> Since the one of the arguments for the decreasing order seems to just be
>> textual representation - do we want to tweak the repr to something like
>>
>> Polynomial(lambda x: 2*x**3 + 3*x**2 + x + 0)
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>> (And add a constructor that calls the lambda with Polynomial(1))
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>> Eric
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> IIRC there was a proposal for that. There is the possibility of adding
> renderers for latex and html that could be used by Jupyter, and I think the
> ordering was an option.
>

See https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/8893 for the proposal. BTW, if
someone would like to work on this, go for it.

Chuck

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