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Evaluation of a polynomial : peval polyEval

peval or polyEval takes as argument a polynomial p given by the list of its coefficients and a real a .
peval or polyEval returns the exact or numeric value of p(a) using Horner algorithm.
Input :
peval([1,0,-1],sqrt(2))
Output :
sqrt(2)*sqrt(2)-1
Then :
normal(sqrt(2)*sqrt(2)-1)
Output :
1
Input :
peval([1,0,-1],1.4)
Output :
0.96



giac documentation written by Renée De Graeve and Bernard Parisse