Re: real polynomials

[John Cremona <john.cremona@gmail.com>]

On 6 November 2015 at 15:34, Karim Belabas
<Karim.Belabas@math.u-bordeaux.fr> wrote:
> * John Cremona [2015-11-06 14:44]:
>> Thanks for the helpful comments.  I don't need multiplicities, and in
>> fact all I need is to know whether there are any roots at all in
>> (-oo,oo) or (-oo,0] or [0,oo).
>> At present the coeffs are converted from C doubles.  My pari
>> programming skills are rather basic so almost all the program uses
>> plain C types and I only convert to GEN for this one test.  Perhaps I
>> should be more brave...
>
> Maybe the following function will be of interest:

Thanks Karim, I will use this.

>
> GEN
> dbltorat(double x)
> {
>   pari_sp av = avma;
>   GEN z;
>
>   if (!x) return gen_0;
>
>   z = utoi( dblmantissa(x) ); if (x < 0) setsigne(z, -1);
>   return gerepileupto(av, gmul2n(z, dblexpo(x) - 63));
> }
>

I will give you a laugh by showing you my own version:

GEN dbltorat(double x) // assumes x=a/2^e
{
  long e;
  GEN res = cgetg(3, t_FRAC);
  if (x==0)
    {
      gel(res,1) = cgeti(0);
      gel(res,2) = cgeti(1);
    }
  else
    {
      gel(res,1) = mantissa_real(dbltor(x), &e);
      gel(res,2) = cgeti(2<<e);
    }
  return res;
}

(tested!  a little)

In answer to Bill, it may be that the rational I create this way cause
problems as coefficients of a polynomial.

> (untested :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
>     K.B.

John

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