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Re: Multiply out 10 factors
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Apr 12, 2010 3:18 PM
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Great, thx. Is there a way to order the result according to coefficients of x^k?
(example: x*(-a^3 - a^5) + x^2*(a^5 + a^6) ...)
Walter Roberson <roberson@hushmail.com> wrote in message <hpvqoc$44k$1@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca>...
> Julian Geiger wrote:
> > I want to do something simple, but I cannot do it right in Matlab and
> > need help:
> >
> > Multiply out: (x-a)(x-a^2)(x-a^3)...(x-a^10)
> >
> > How can I do this? I tried so many things, including entering the
> > equation. However, Matlab does not give me the resulting polynomial, it
> > gives me a factorization (which is not what I look for).
>
> I gather you are doing this symbolically? If so then use expand()
>
> http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/toolbox/symbolic/expand.html
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