Dagwood: a system for manipulating polynomials given by straight-line programs

  • Authors:
  • Timothy S. Freeman;Gregory M. Imirzian;Erich Kaltofen;Lakshman Yagati

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA;Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY;Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY;Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS)
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

We discuss the design, implementation, and benchmarking of a system that can manipulate symbolic expressions represented by their straight-line computations. Our system is capable of performing rational arithmetic on, evaluating, differentiating, taking greatest common divisors of, and factoring polynomials in straight-line format. The straight-line results can also be converted to standard, sparse format. We show by example that our system can handle problems for which conventional methods lead to excessive intermediate expression swell.