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Re: Checking for a given phrase in an expression

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• Subject: [mg60761] Re: [mg60744] Checking for a given phrase in an expression
• From: <bsyehuda at gmail.com>
• Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 01:40:57 -0400 (EDT)
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Out of the sleeve solution (I do not have time to have an intelligent one
right now) is to generate subsets of aa and then test if bb is a an element
in the list of subsets so
MemberQ[Subsets[aa, Length[bb]], bb]
returns True as expected
yehuda


On 9/27/05, lost.and.lonely.physicist at gmail.com <
lost.and.lonely.physicist at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone
>
> Is it possible to ask Mathematica to check if a given phrase occurs in
> an expression? Say I have
>
> aa = 1 + x + x y + Log[Sin[z]]
>
> and
>
> bb = x + Log[Sin[z]]
>
> Can Mathematica tell me such a phrase bb exists in aa? Can it tell me
> its 'position' within the expression aa?
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
>

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