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Re: Simplify Expressions with Non commutative multiplication

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg60279] Re: Simplify Expressions with Non commutative multiplication
• From: David Bailey <dave at Remove_Thisdbailey.co.uk>
• Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 06:46:32 -0400 (EDT)
• References: <dfrgic$fpu$1@smc.vnet.net>
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hello,

One problem with patterns of the form a___,something,b___ (or even more 
complicated variants) is that they can work, but involve a combinatorial 
explosion of possiblities - so things get hopelessly too slow when you 
scale the code up to work on real problems.

A more efficient approach might be to treat the contents of your myDot 
as a list and process it from left to right either recursively or even 
indexing the terms explicitly using [[k]].

David Bailey
http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk