fullratsimp should not loop forever. Do you have
an example?
One could write a program to count the number of
monomials in a CRE form by looking separately at
numerator and denominator and counting the number of
integers in the "coefficient" places.
RJF
Barton Willis wrote:
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>What tools do we have for measuring the size of
>an expression? I know about conssize (defined
>in compar.lisp), but conssize doesn't work on cre
>expressions.
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>I was looking at the source for fullratsubst and
>thought it might be reasonable to stop the
>substitution when the expression gets "bigger."
>Currently, fullratsubst can loop forever.
>
>Barton
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