Re : how to handle roots of unity symbolically ?



On 2012-11-24, Richard Fateman <fateman at eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> The description of tellrat should probably say that you should use a 
> minimal polynomial:

What is the effect of tellrat(p) when p is not a minimal polynomial?
Should tellrat attempt to find a minimal polynomial, or reject an
argument which is not a minimal polynomial?

best

Robert Dodier