Hedos wrote:
> Hello!
> Thanks for taking the time to answer.
>
> Your idea sounds great, I'm certainly not opposed to it. My feeling was it
> is a lot harder to evaluate the fundamental ideas behind a large body of
> code than it is from a specialised resource, which is why I asked that
> question.
>
> This is not a homework problem, I'd like to write a CAS.
Since you're just starting with polynomials, and don't want to look at
existing implementations, perhaps you can read some chapters in PAIP
(Paradigms in Artificial Intelligence Programming). I think there are a
few chapters about symbolic math, including polynomials and symbolic
differentiation.
Ray