The constant symbol represents the constant vector. It takes two parameters,
the length (dimension) of the vector and the constant value, which all
the elements are equal to.
Commented Mathematical property (CMP):
If V is a constant vector of length n, with constant value c
and i is in the integral interval [1,n] then
V.i = c
The sparse symbol is a constructor for sparse vectors, it is (n+1)-ary,
where the first parameter is the length (dimension) of the vector, and
every following parameter specifies a possibly non-zero element in the
following way. The parameter is a list which should have length two.
The first element in the list is the position (one based), whilst the second
element in the list is the value. Every other element of the vector is
implicitly zero.
Example:
This example shows a representation of the sparse matrix
$$\left (\begin{array}[c]1\\0\\0\\0\\0\end{array}\right$$