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Range -- an optional argument
Description
A symbol used as the name of an optional argument.
Functions with optional argument named
Range
:
getPrimeWithRootOfUnity(...,Range=>...)
-- see
getPrimeWithRootOfUnity
-- find a prime p with a primitive n-th root of unity r in ZZ/p
For the programmer
The object
Range
is
a
symbol
.
The source of this document is in
Macaulay2Doc/options.m2:28:0
.