Re: simplify with If's (with web interface)
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- Subject: [mg28922] Re: [mg28873] simplify with If's (with web interface)
- From: jmt <jmt at agat.net>
- Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 01:13:29 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <200105160728.DAA15542@smc.vnet.net>
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
A suggestion :
1) Define a new function "if" :
Clear@if;
if[test_,if[test_,true_,false_]:=if[test,true,false]
2) Set up compatibility with the built-in If :
if[test:(True|False),true_,false_]:=If[test,true,false]
If a has no value, simplification is correct :
Clear@a;
if[a,if[a,x,y],y] gives if[a,x,y]
And if a is either True or False, it returns either x or z.
Maybe Unprotect-ing If and adding new definitions to If should work, but I
did not test this.
On Wednesday 16 May 2001 09:28, Daniel Reeves wrote:
> I'm looking for a way to simplify nested conditionals, like
>
> If[a, If[a, x, y], z]
>
> should simplify to
>
> If[a,x,z]
>
> I wrote some really awful code to do this:
>
> simplifyAll[x_] := FullSimplify[Evaluate //@ x]
>
> simpIf[x_, y_, z_] := Module[{sx = FullSimplify[x]},
> If[sx, Evaluate[FullSimplify[y, sx]],
> Evaluate[FullSimplify[z, Not[sx]]]]]
>
> simplifyWithIfsSub[x_] :=
> FixedPoint[simplifyAll, FixedPoint[simplifyAll, x] /. If->simpIf]
>
> simplifyWithIfs[x_] := FixedPoint[simplifyWithIfsSub, x]
>
> I'm thinking someone has probably already done this so I don't want to
> spend too much time working on the approach above.
>
> PS, I have a web interface to my simplifier (which accepts input in either
> mathematica or lisp syntax):
> http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/dreeves/simplify.html
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel
>
> -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
> Daniel Reeves http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/dreeves/
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- From: Daniel Reeves <dreeves@eecs.umich.edu>
- simplify with If's (with web interface)