What happens if you substitute 0 for each of the other variables?
(Might work if the expression is a sum of products, no division etc.)
Sarah Mount wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Sorry to ask such a dumb question -- I guess I just can't find the
>right bit of the manual. Duh.
>
>I've got a really *really* long expression in 16 variables, but I'm
>only interested in those parts of the expression that contain 4 of
>those 16 variables. Is there any way to get maxima to return the
>subexpression containing only those variables which I'm interested in?
>
>Very many thanks,
>
>Sarah
>
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