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isFullDimensional -- Determine whether a polyhedral object is full-dimensional

Synopsis

Description

Checks whether the dimension of the polyhedral object is equal to its ambient dimension.

i1 : C = hypercube 2

o1 = C

o1 : Polyhedron
i2 : dim C

o2 = 2
i3 : ambDim C

o3 = 2
i4 : isFullDimensional C

o4 = true
i5 : F = normalFan hypercube 2

o5 = F

o5 : Fan
i6 : dim F

o6 = 2
i7 : ambDim F

o7 = 2
i8 : isFullDimensional F

o8 = true
i9 : S = stdSimplex 2

o9 = S

o9 : Polyhedron
i10 : vertices S

o10 = | 1 0 0 |
      | 0 1 0 |
      | 0 0 1 |

               3       3
o10 : Matrix QQ  <-- QQ
i11 : dim S

o11 = 2
i12 : ambDim S

o12 = 3
i13 : isFullDimensional S

o13 = false

Ways to use isFullDimensional :

For the programmer

The object isFullDimensional is a method function.