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 ____________________________________________________________________ Paul Abbott Phone: +61-8-9380-2734 Department of Physics Fax: +61-8-9380-1014 The University of Western Australia Nedlands WA 6907 mailto:paul at physics.uwa.edu.au AUSTRALIA http://www.physics.uwa.edu.au/~paul God IS a weakly left-handed dice player ____________________________________________________________________