// non-virtual functions in this class
public:
+ /** Get the expansion variable. */
+ ex get_var(void) const {return var;}
+
+ /** Get the expansion point. */
+ ex get_point(void) const {return point;}
+
+ /** Convert the pseries object to an ordinary polynomial.
+ *
+ * @param no_order flag: discard higher order terms */
ex convert_to_poly(bool no_order = false) const;
- bool is_compatible_to(const pseries &other) const {return var.compare(other.var) == 0 && point.compare(other.point) == 0;}
+
+ /** Check whether series is compatible to another series (expansion
+ * variable and point are the same. */
+ bool is_compatible_to(const pseries &other) const {return var.is_equal(other.var) && point.is_equal(other.point);}
+
+ /** Check whether series has the value zero. */
bool is_zero(void) const {return seq.size() == 0;}
+
+ /** Returns true if there is no order term, i.e. the series terminates and
+ * false otherwise. */
bool is_terminating(void) const;
+
ex add_series(const pseries &other) const;
ex mul_const(const numeric &other) const;
ex mul_series(const pseries &other) const;