Karim Belabas on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:08:03 +0100


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Re: get series precision


* John Jones [2008-02-25 22:35]:
> If I have a power series, is there a function which tells me its  
> precision?  For example,
>
> f1 = exp(x)
> f2 = (f1-1)/x
>
> With the default, f1 is +O(x^17) and f2 is +O(x^16).  How can a script  
> tell which is which?

#f1, #f2   ( or length(f1) if your old version of PARI doesn't know about #)

Cheers,

    K.B.
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