polynom v0.0.1

https://github.com/deanm/polynom

(c) Dean McNamee dean@gmail.com, 2014.

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Polynom is a small JavaScript library for polynomial expressions of exact rational numbers. It includes a basic Rational class for dealing with numbers of the form a/b where a and b are integers. A Polynomial is then simply a list of the rational coefficients for a specific degree. Some basic calculus operations (power law for polynomials) are implemented, allowing to integrate and differentiate polynomials.

The Rational numbers are currently implemented on top of JavaScript number primitives, which are doubles having a limited range of integers that can be represented. In the future, the Rational number support should either be extended to implement a big integers, or an external library such as js-numbers (implementation of the scheme numeric tower) should be used.