Re: RE: FullSimplify and HypergeometricPFQ
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- Subject: [mg72087] Re: [mg72050] RE: [mg72035] FullSimplify and HypergeometricPFQ
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
- Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 04:55:21 -0500 (EST)
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On 11 Dec 2006, at 09:45, Andrzej Kozlowski wrote: > Expressions involving semi-algebraic functions (polynomials with > radicals) already suffer from branching problems, which make them > often impossible do deal with in practice. I should not have used the phrase "semi-algebraic functions" here; that would be the correct description only in the real case. I guess in the complex case they should be referred to as "elements of some algebraic extension of the the field of rational functions" - maybe calling them "algebraic functions" is O.K. Andrzej Kozlowski