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Re: Most efficient method of simplifying

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  • Subject: [mg16250] Re: Most efficient method of simplifying
  • From: Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au>
  • Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 00:41:14 -0500
  • Organization: University of Western Australia
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Greg Arnold wrote:

> I realize this is not a well defined questions, but I'm working with some
> fairly nasty ratios of functions (generally ratios of polynomials, but not
> always).  At several points I do some substitutions and then I want to
> simplify the result such that (1) all variables are removed (cancelled) that
> can be, and (2) the result simplifies to zero if appropriate.

Depending on the functions, using Together is probably the best
solution.

Cheers,
	Paul

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