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306 • Indexdecomposition, 64definition, 58degree of, 62dividing, 17, 61expanding, 33, 146factoring, 150interpolation, 64sorting, 59–60sorting elements, 160–161PolynomialTools, 81position in list, specifying, 24PostScript, 284powseries, 81precisionfloating-point approximations,11integers, 7prepending names, 20previous computations, referringto, 8primality tests, 8prime number test, 8primitive part of multivariate polynomial,64print, 26printinggraphics, 284procedures, 193proceduresevaluating, 192printing, 193process, 81protected names, 19pseudo-remainder, 64quo, 61quotation mark, 197quotientinteger division, 8polynomials, 61random, 93random number generation, 93random polynomial, 64RandomTools, 81range, 92rational expressionsexpanded normal form, 36factored normal form, 35rational functionsfactoring, 150rational numbers, 7–9vs. floating-point numbers, 8–10rationalize, 153RationalNormalForms, 81read, 272readingcode, 272columns, 270commands, 272files, 272RealDomain, 81reciprocal polynomial, 64recurrence relations, solving, 58reference pages (online), see helppages, accessingrefining 2-D plots, 111refining 3-D plots, 118relative error, 11rem, 61remainderinteger division, 9remainder of polynomials, 61remember tables, 228remove, 172removing assumptions, 167repeated composition operator,233, 248reserved names, 19restart, 275restricting solutions, 47, 95resultant of two polynomials, 64