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Homework for Tuesday

Another representation of a polynomial

Our form of representing polynomials using the index for the exponent is not so good for a polynomial like \(4 x^{512} + 7 x^{256} + 1\) We could also represent polynomials by a list of lists. e.g. .. sourcecode:: python

[[4,512],[7,256],[1,0]]

Here each term is a two element list of [coefficient, exponent]

Assignment

Rewrite polynomials.py so that it uses this new representation of a polynomial.

modified: Thu Jan 28 11:25:57 PST 2016