Well I am trying to write a simple "polynomial engine" that has two functions:
I just don't know where to start:(
I can't think of a method to use. I don't think there are any polynomial libraries in java?
My question is: do any of you have any idea on a simple way to simplify polynomials?
Please help!
Thanks in advanced,
Andrew
So a basic question, you won't find any polynomial library
What is the probelm with the code you wrote ?
That's the problem, I don't have any code I have written! I am very talented at math or at least I was when I was doing algebra in 5th grade. So I keep going through the steps of evaluating:
I get stuck at the very first item "Combine alike terms" I just don't know how I would do that, since the user, is supposed to enter the polynomial, and I get it as a string.
I know that if I can evaluate the polynomial then solving it becomes easy if you know the unknowns.
Help please,
Andrew
I don't know if I should make a new thread for this so I will use this one which I have created!
Ok well I wrote a class that simplifies polynomials, but I always get weird answers. Take a look at the code and then at the bottom of the post.
package polynomialhelper;
import javax.swing.*;
/**
* This class helps with polynomials!
* @author Andrew
*/
public class polynomialEngine {
/**
* Class constructor nothing interesting.
*/
public polynomialEngine() {
}
/**
*
* @param x the array of x coefficients
* @param x2 the array of x<sup>2</sup> coefficients
* @param coeff coefficient at the end
* @return polynomial in string state.
*/
public String simplifyPolynomial(float[] x, float[] x2, float coeff) {
String polynomial = "Error";
float xs = 0, x2s = 0;
for(int i = 0; i <3; i++) {
xs = xs + x[i];
x2s += x2[i];
}
JOptionPane.showConfirmDialog(null, x2s);
if ( xs != 0 & x2s !=0 ) {
polynomial = "<html>" + String.valueOf(x2s) + "x<sup>2</sup>+" + String.valueOf(xs) + "x+" + String.valueOf(coeff) + "</html>";
}
else if (xs != 0 & x2s == 0) {
polynomial = "<html>" + String.valueOf(xs) + "x" + "+" + String.valueOf(coeff) + "</html>";
}
else if (xs == 0 & x2s != 0) {
polynomial = "<html>" + String.valueOf(x2s) + "x<sup>2</sup>+" + String.valueOf(coeff) + "</html>";
}
else if (xs == 0 & x2s == 0) {
polynomial = "<html>" + String.valueOf(coeff) + "</html>";
}
else if (xs != 0 & x2s != 0 & coeff == 0) {
polynomial = "<html>" + String.valueOf(x2s) + "x<sup>2</sup>+" + String.valueOf(xs) + "x" + "</html>";
}
else if (xs != 0 & x2s == 0 & coeff == 0) {
polynomial ="<html>" + String.valueOf(xs) + "x" + "</html>";
}
else if (xs == 0 & x2s != 0) {
polynomial = "<html>" + String.valueOf(x2s) + "x<sup>2</sup>" + "</html>";
}
else {
polynomial = "Error please check data!";
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Error please check the data you enter!", "Polynomial Helper", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
}
return polynomial;
}
}Please note that I am using this class in an other program, it has a limit of three coefficients per-variable and here are some of the test values I passed and here is what I got:
1st x value: 1
2nd x value: 2
3rd x value: 3
1st x^2 value: 1
2nd x^2 value: 2
3rd x^3 value: 3
Coeff. value : 4
Answer: 6x^2 + 6x + 4 (totally right)
1st x value: 1
2nd x value: 3
3rd x value: 5
1st x^2 value: 2
2nd x^2 value: 4
3rd x^3 value: 6
Coeff. value : 7
Answer: 11x^2 + 9x + 7
What is wrong with my code?:(
My package com.perisic.ring (available at ring.perisic.com) provides polynomial arithmetic.
If you are running on windows you should use a system call to bertini32 which solves polynomial systems using homotopic continuation. It will run slower but will find much more difficult polynomial systems.
See:
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1473186]
http://www.nd.edu/~sommese/bertini
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