Re: Q: Factor with Polynominals?
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- Subject: [mg26985] Re: Q: Factor with Polynominals?
- From: Robert <robert.schuerhuber at gmx.at>
- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 23:22:10 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Vienna University of Technology
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thanks again for your answers! unfortunately your method works with the (rather simple) examples, but it fails with longer, more complex poynomials. robert Allan Hayes wrote: > Here is a technique that works, with little thought, for both of the > examples given so far in this thread. > > poly = (x^2 + y^2)^4 + y (x^2 + y^2) + y; > poly2 = 3 x^2 + 3 y^2 + x + y^3 + y x^2; > > tf[u___ + a_ b_ + v___ + a_ c_ + w___] := u + a(b + c) + v + w; > tf[z_] := z; > > fs = FullSimplify[poly, TransformationFunctions -> {Automatic, tf}, > ComplexityFunction -> (Length[#] &) > ]