[OS X TeX] Binomial Expansion

[Alain Schremmer]

If the following is OT, I would very much appreciate being redirected to 
some more appropriate list.

If only to learn a little bit about how LaTeX works, I thought I would 
try over the Christmas break to work on defining something like

    \Evaluate{Polynomial in x}{some number}

and/or

    \Expand{a}{b}{some degree}              (i.e. binomial expansions)

Of course I have no hope whatsoever to succeed with either one but I 
started to read Appendix 1 of Companion 2ed and that doesn't look like 
very relevant.

Is there something readable on the subject? For instance, something that 
would help me read the awesome polynom.sty?

Hopeful regards
--schremmer


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