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Documentation on ComplexityFunction says: With the default setting ComplexityFunction->Automatic, forms are ranked ...
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1answer
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I need to calculate a limit of a sequence given by its recurrence relation. I tried the following: ...
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1answer
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How do I expand StirlingS2[n, 10] in terms of elementary functions?

I know that it is possible to expand StirlingS2[n, 10] in terms of elementary functions of n. I tried ...
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Sqrt — how to get negative branch?

One of the many attractions of Mathematica is that integers are generally treated as exact symbolic entities, and not just as numbers. I was just playing with Sqrt, and was puzzled by what appeared to ...
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Prevent Part[] from trying to extract parts of symbolic expressions

If you have a list, e.g. {1, 2, 3} then you can extract the $k$th part using Part (...