On 11/26/2011 5:52 AM, Oliver Kullmann wrote:
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> It is really a pity that Maxima doesn't have such a function:
> In it would be collected heuristical knowledge, analysing the expression,
> and applying the given simplification-functions in all kinds of different
> ways.
The model for such a function might be Simplify and FullSimplify as
designed for
Mathematica. The reference manual is online somewhere.
Expand, by the way, is rarely the best program to do what most people want.
ratsimp or ratexpand are many times faster.
radcan is potentially slower.
RJF