Re: Number of monomials
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- Subject: [mg87090] Re: Number of monomials
- From: Szabolcs Horvát <szhorvat at gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:06:28 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: University of Bergen
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Szabolcs Horvát wrote:
> To count the number of terms in a sum, use e.g.
> Length[{ Sequence@@sum }]
Sorry, this is incorrect. I think that the only reliable way to count
the number of terms in a sum is to explicitly check if there is only one
or more terms.
numOfTerms[terms_Plus] := Length[terms]
numOfTerms[term_] := 1
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