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- From: mflll@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Dr. Laurence Leff)
- Subject: Re: simplification
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.195532.24675@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu>
- Organization: Educational Computing Network
- References: <1992Jul25.115733.27293@wuecl.wustl.edu>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 19:55:32 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul25.115733.27293@wuecl.wustl.edu> ppc1@cec1.wustl.edu (Peter Pui Tak Chiu) writes:
- >
- >hi everyone,
- >
- >
- > how to do symbolic simplification using scheme, lisp or anything...?
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- %A J. Moses
- %T Algebraic Simplification: A Guide for the Perplexed
- %J CACM
- %V 14
- %N 8
- %D AUG 1971
- %P 527-537
- %K SM
- %W 06R
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- You will find that it is not always clear what the simplest form of
- a given expression is, after some obvious simplifications like
- converting something+0 to something and something*1 to something.
- The above is the standard reading on these issues.
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