dot_product()

ring_elem Ring::dot_product	(	const vecterm *	v,
		const vecterm *	w ) const

Definition at line 620 of file ring-vecs.cpp.

{
  ring_elem result = this->from_long(0);
  while (true)
    {
      if (v == nullptr) return result;
      if (w == nullptr) return result;
      if (v->comp > w->comp)
        v = v->next;
      else if (v->comp < w->comp)
        w = w->next;
      else
        {
          ring_elem a = this->mult(v->coeff, w->coeff);
          result = this->add(result, a);
          v = v->next;
          w = w->next;
        }
    }
}

References add(), vec::coeff, vec::comp, from_long(), mult(), vec::next, and result().