tellrat limitation?

• Subject: tellrat limitation?
• From: Barton Willis
• Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 19:07:55 -0500

(%i1) tellrat(x^2 - 1/2);
Minimal polynomial must be monic -- an error.  Quitting.  To debug this try
DEBUGMODE(TRUE);

Yeech! x^2 - 1/2 is monic.  Must the polynomial have integer coefficients?

Barton

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