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[Axiom-developer] Re: More AxiomUI
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Bob McElrath |
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[Axiom-developer] Re: More AxiomUI |
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Tue, 21 Jun 2005 18:47:00 -0700 |
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Page, Bill address@hidden wrote:
> "Suppose we try a naive approach. We could decorate each domain (those
> parts of Axiom which have an internal representation) with a function
> that would return the internal representation recursively expanded
> into a lisp s-expression. We could also give each domain a function
> that takes this s-expression and tries to simplify it. But we run into
> an issue. What would be the return type of such a simplify function?"
The integrate() function seems to work quite well, despite the fact that
I might add two disparate things.
(8) -> integrate(log(x)+x, x)
(8) ->
2
2x log(x) + x - 2x
(8) -------------------
2
Type: Union(Expression Integer,...)
Simplification rules must be domain-specific. However the domain that
is used in most engineering-type CAS' (maple/mathematica/maxima) is
essentially "Complex Expression". Is Union(Expression Integer,...)
equivalent?
It's been mentioned before that the "Expression" domain needs a lot of
work. This talk of simplification probably belongs there.
However if we were very smart we would have domain-specific rules, and a
generic format (such as the s-expression example you mention above), and
*one* set of simplify/factor/expand functions. The result would be as
it is from integrate(), Union(something) or Expression(something). The
type should be derivable...
--
Cheers,
Bob McElrath [Univ. of California at Davis, Department of Physics]
"One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen
these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding
fathers used in the great struggle for independence." --Charles A. Beard
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- [Axiom-developer] Re: More AxiomUI, Bob McElrath, 2005/06/21
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