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Replacing expressions with smaller atoms

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• Subject: [mg100447] Replacing expressions with smaller atoms
• From: Ben Forbes <bdforbes at gmail.com>
• Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 03:33:09 -0400 (EDT)

If I define an atom eg L=x^2+x+1, is there a way to rewrite an
expression with these atoms? For example:

L=x^2+x+1
M=x+(x(x^2+x+1))^(1/2)

I would like some way to express this as x+(xL)^(1/2). Is this possible?

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