> -----Original Message-----
> From: maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu
> [mailto:maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu] On Behalf Of Stavros Macrakis
> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 7:48 AM
> To: Maxima list; ZINTEL Gerhard
> Subject: how to make results more compact?
>
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> If you were able to analyze your expression manually, then you must
> have followed some strategy which allowed you to master this
> combinatorial blowup, which may be based on a priori knowledge of the
> form of the result. You should be able to program this strategy in
> Maxima.
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I agree with what Stavros said here, and would like to point out that if you
are reasonably expert in some kind of calculation but have no idea how to do
something algorithmically "by paper and pencil" you should not be surprised
to find that there is no program written by someone else to magically solve
the problem.
There are a few areas in which a computer algebra system does what amounts
to magic -- simply because so few people are really expert at these tasks,
or the tasks are very tedious. Symbolic integration and polynomial
factorization are two such examples.
If you do come up with a neat algorithmic way of reformatting expressions to
be "simpler" according to your criteria, there is a directory for such
contributions!