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The peval or
polyEval
command evaluates polynomials.
- 
peval takes two arguments:
- 
P, a polynomial given by the list of its
coefficients.
- a, a real number.
 
- peval(P,a) returns the exact
or numeric value of P(a), calculated using Horner’s method.
Examples
| normal(sqrt(2)*sqrt(2)-1) | 
 
 
