Rename minpoly
-> minimal_polynomial
, and charpoly
-> characteristic_polynomial
?
#4517
Labels
minpoly
-> minimal_polynomial
, and charpoly
-> characteristic_polynomial
?
#4517
This would make sense based on our naming conventions. Note that the old names must stay for backwards compatibility. (I also like to have these for compact code, just like
ngens
, but that's a separate matter.Also note that actual they are already identical. We do this in AA:
So why a change? Because right now if you do
?minimal_polynomial
in the REPL when OSCAR is loaded, it shows a bunch of docstrings, among which the info forAlias for minpoly
is a bit lost. To get all info you need to enter both?minpoly
and?minimal_polynomial
.So overall this switch would boil down to this:
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: