Math & Science ⇒ Polynom package and change of variable

[coach]

Dear forum members,

I am having major problems with the polynom package. I am trying to perform polynomial long division on the expression n^3-1. I used the following code

\polyset{vars=n}
\polylongdiv{x^3-1}{x-1}

and the result is in the attachment. The expression goes all weird when I try to change the variable, because I desperately need it to be n instead of x. Why won't the package accept n as a variable?
Could someone please help me?

Thank you!

[localghost]

You missed something. When declaring n as a variable, you have to use it as variable. The following code works fine for me.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{polynom}

\parindent0em

\begin{document}
  \polyset{vars=n}
  \polylongdiv{n^3-1}{n-1}
\end{document}

The manual of the polynom package is a little bit misleading in this point.


Best regards
Thorsten

[coach]

Thank you so much!

It works now.