factorization

© 2012 John Abbott, Anna Bigatti
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In CoCoALib factorization is a template class with all fields public. Its purpose is to represent a (partial) factorization. The only operations for a factorization are the constructor and operator<< for printing.

A factorization contains three fields

In CoCoALib there are just two instantiations of this template:

The exact characteristics of the factors found depend on the function which generated the factorization.

Maintainer documentation

Short and simple! It's all in the header file.

Bugs, shortcomings and other ideas

It would be safer to have pairs of factor-and-multiplicity rather than two separate vectors whose length must be the same. However it may be less convenient for the user.

Which name is better multiplicity or exponent?

Main changes

2012