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However, the method of constructing these polynomials is still somewhat unintuitive. In the \u003chttps://www.mathworks.com/products/symbolic.html Symbolic Math Toolbox\u003e, one can simply define some variables,\r\n\r\n  syms x y z\r\n\r\nand then create a polynomial:\r\n\r\n  p = 2*x*y + 3*x^5*z;\r\n\r\nWe would like to do something like that here. As a start, create a class |mPolySym| with properties |exponents| and |coefficients|, and |varnames|,  where the first two properties are the same as in previous problems and |varnames| is a \u003chttps://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/characters-and-strings.html string array\u003e. 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