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Why is ReplaceAll behaving like this?
I'm learning to use the ReplaceAll function and I found the behavior of which is quite confusing.
For
Sqrt[f[x, y]] /. f[___] -> u
Mathematica returns
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Pattern matching a pattern with patterns
Confusing title, I know. But the question is, if we have two patterns which have the same general structure but different names used in the patterns and different names:
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