[Maxima-bugs] [maxima:bugs] #4593 tellrat called on non-monic polynomial

[Barton W. <wil...@us...>]

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**[bugs:#4593] tellrat called on non-monic polynomial**

**Status:** open
**Group:** None
**Labels:** tellrat 
**Created:** Mon Aug 11, 2025 11:43 AM UTC by Barton Willis
**Last Updated:** Mon Aug 11, 2025 11:43 AM UTC
**Owner:** nobody


The user documentation for `tellrat` says that each argument to `tellrat` must be a "polynomial with integer coefficients,"  but it does not say that the polynomial must be monic.  But it seems that the arguments must be monic:

OK
~~~
(%i1)	tellrat(z^2 + 2);
(%o1)	[z^2+2]
~~~
Error
~~~
(%i2)	tellrat(2*x^2+1);
tellrat: minimal polynomial must be monic.
~~~
Either the user documentation needs to be changed, or the source code extended to allow non monic arguments.


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