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-rw-r--r--polymatrix/polymatrix/index.py14
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/polymatrix/polymatrix/index.py b/polymatrix/polymatrix/index.py
index c906b35..e50df43 100644
--- a/polymatrix/polymatrix/index.py
+++ b/polymatrix/polymatrix/index.py
@@ -161,6 +161,20 @@ class PolyDict(UserDict[MonomialIndex, int | float]):
return self[MonomialIndex.constant()]
return 0
+ def is_constant(self) -> bool:
+ """
+ Check whether the polynomial is a constant polynomial.
+ """
+ # polynomial is zero
+ if len(self.keys()) == 0:
+ return True
+
+ if len(self.keys()) > 1:
+ return False
+
+ m, *_ = self.keys()
+ return MonomialIndex.is_constant(m)
+
def terms(self) -> Iterable[tuple[MonomialIndex, int | float]]:
""" Iterate over terms with a non-zero coefficient. """
# This is an alias for readability