Re: question 1
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- Subject: [mg75873] Re: [mg75810] question 1
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
- Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 03:11:17 -0400 (EDT)
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On 12 May 2007, at 10:37, Andrzej Kozlowski wrote:
>
> On 12 May 2007, at 10:23, Andrzej Kozlowski wrote:
>
>> On 11 May 2007, at 18:24, dimitris wrote:
>>
>>> I have
>>>
>>> In[5]:=
>>> f = (o - 8)^4 - (e + 4)^8
>>>
>>> Out[5]=
>>> -(4 + e)^8 + (-8 + o)^4
>>>
>>> In[6]:=
>>> ff = Expand[f]
>>>
>>> Out[6]=
>>> -61440 - 131072*e - 114688*e^2 - 57344*e^3 - 17920*e^4 - 3584*e^5 -
>>> 448*e^6 - 32*e^7 - e^8 - 2048*o + 384*o^2 - 32*o^3 + o^4
>>>
>>> Is it possible to simplify ff to f again?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I don't think Mathematica can do it automatically, because the
>> most obvious way of carrying out this simplification relies on
>> transformations of the kind that that Simplify or FullSimplify
>> never use (such as adding and simultaneously subtracting some
>> number, then rearranging the whole expression and factoring parts
>> of it). These kind of transformations could be implemented but
>> they would work in only a few cases, and would considerably
>> increase the time complexity of simplifying. Here is an example of
>> another transformation that will work in this and some similar
>> cases:
>>
>> transf[f_, {e_, o_}] :=
>> With[{a = Integrate[D[f, e], e], b = Integrate[D[f, o], o]},
>> Simplify[a] + Simplify[b] + Simplify[(f - (a + b))]]
>>
>> (one can easily implment a version with more than two variables).
>>
>> This works in your case:
>>
>> ff = Expand[(o - 8)^4 - (e + 4)^8];
>>
>> transf[ff, {e, o}]
>> (o - 8)^4 - (e + 4)^8
>>
>> and in quite many cases like yours :
>>
>> gg = Expand[(a + 3)^5 + (x - 7)^6];
>>
>> transf[gg, {a, x}]
>> (x - 7)^6 + (a + 3)^5
>>
>> but not in all
>>
>> hh = Expand[(x - 5)^4 + (y - 3)^3];
>>
>> transf[hh, {x, y}]
>> (x - 5)^4 + y*((y - 9)*y + 27) - 27
>>
>> Even this, however, is better than the answer FullSimplify gives:
>>
>> FullSimplify[hh]
>>
>> (x - 10)*x*((x - 10)*x + 50) + y*((y - 9)*y + 27) + 598
>>
>> Unfortunately transf also has very high complexity (it uses
>> Integrate) and is unlikely to be useful in cases other than sums
>> of polynomials in different variables (without "cross terms") so I
>> doubt that it would be worth implementing some version of it in
>> FullSimplify.
>>
>>
>> Andrzej Kozlowski
>>
>
> I forgot that Integrate already maks use of Simplify, so (probably)
> the folowing version of transf will work just as well and faster:
>
> transf[f_, {e_, o_}] :=
> With[{a = Integrate[D[f, e], e], b = Integrate[D[f, o], o]},
> a + b + Simplify[(f - (a + b))]]
>
> Andrzej Kozlowski
Sorry, that last remark just not true. Cleary Integrate uses Simplify
before integration but does not Simplify its output (obviously to
save time) so including Simplify does make a difference. Note also
the following works much better, but is,, of course, much more tiem
consuming:
transf[f_, {e_, o_}] :=
With[{a = Integrate[D[f, e], e], b = Integrate[D[f, o], o]},
FullSimplify[Simplify[a] + Simplify[b] + Simplify[(f - (a + b))],
ExcludedForms -> {(x + c_)^n_, (y + d_)^m_}]]
This will deal with many cases that would not work before:
hh = Expand[(x - 5)^4 + (y - 3)^3];
transf[hh, {x, y}]
(x - 5)^4 + (y - 3)^3
p = Expand[(x - 2)^4 + (y + 1)^2];
transf[p, {x, y}]
(x - 2)^4 + (y + 1)^2
but at least one power has to be higher than 3. This this will work
q = Expand[(x - 2)^4 + (y + 1)^3];
transf[q, {x, y}]
(x - 2)^4 + (y + 1)^3
but this will not (all powers are <=3)
q = Expand[(x - 2)^3 + (y + 1)^3];
transf[q, {x, y}]
x*((x - 6)*x + 12) + y*(y*(y + 3) + 3) - 7
Andrzej Kozlowski
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