Re: FullSimplify in functions
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- Subject: [mg82601] Re: FullSimplify in functions
- From: Szabolcs Horvát <szhorvat at gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:14:41 -0400 (EDT)
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Michael Mandelberg wrote: > What is the best/proper way to incorporate FullSimplify[ ] into a > function definition in such a way that the FullSimplify[ ] executes > only once instead of each time the function is called, i.e. it is > "compiled", though I'm not sure this is the same thing as the > Mathematica Compile[ ] function. > OK, I think I misunderstood what you meant. If the expression FullSimplify[] will be applied to does not depend on the argument of the function, then simply use Set[] instead of SetDelayed[]. In[1]:= f[x_] = Simplify[Sin[x]^2 + 2 Cos[x]^2] Out[1]= 1/2 (3 + Cos[2 x]) In[2]:= ?f Global`f f[x_]=1/2 (3+Cos[2 x]) In[3]:= g[x_] := Simplify[Sin[x]^2 + 2 Cos[x]^2] In[4]:= ?g Global`g g[x_]:=Simplify[Sin[x]^2+2 Cos[x]^2] Is this what you meant? Szabolcs P.S. Still, compilation is something *completely* different from evaluating an expression before assigning it to something. Read the doc page tutorial/CompilingMathematicaExpressions to understand it.