Timeline for Simplifying a quadratic [duplicate]
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| Aug 21, 2013 at 23:25 | history | closed |
Thies Heidecke Sjoerd C. de Vries Kuba Sasha halirutan |
Duplicate of How do I get my equation to have the form $(x-a)^2 + (y-b)^2 + (z-c)^2-d = 0$? | |
| Aug 21, 2013 at 22:10 | history | edited | Siva | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 21, 2013 at 22:03 | comment | added | Kuba | Well, if you don't know what you are expecting how we can? What is intuitive for you does not have to be for others, not to mention that you have not specified what you want to format, polynomials only? To broad question will be closed, but without 2) it will be closed as a duplicate. I hope you understand. | |
| Aug 21, 2013 at 21:54 | comment | added | Siva |
@Kuba, I understand that Q2 sounds vague, but I don't know how to concretely explain what I mean, since I'm touching on intuition. I apologize for that. In the case of the quadratic, the form I'm looking for immediately lets me visualize the function. Otoh, FullSimplify on the quadratic gives a format convenient for implementing as a recursion but is not easy for me (and presumably others) to intuitively understand.
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| Aug 21, 2013 at 21:53 | comment | added | Sjoerd C. de Vries |
Since you originally presented your polynomial with symbolic coefficients (a , b, c) that's what I tried. In that case Simplify and FullSimplify yield the same. As to the space: a x^2 differs from ax^2.
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| Aug 21, 2013 at 21:47 | comment | added | Siva |
@SjoerdC.deVries Example added to demonstrate what I see. Simplify and FullSimplify give me different results, unless I'm doing something wrong. I don't understand what you mean by the space between a and x. And thanks, I'll look at ComplexityFunction
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| Aug 21, 2013 at 21:46 | history | edited | Siva | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 21, 2013 at 21:03 | comment | added | Sjoerd C. de Vries |
Contrary to what you state, Simplify and FullSimplify yield the same result for me (c + x (b + a x)). You may have forgotten to insert a space between a and x. As to 1): Have a look at ComplexityFunction, especially the example at the bottom of the page.
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| Aug 21, 2013 at 20:49 | comment | added | Kuba | @Siva I think you should make more precise question in 2). | |
| Aug 21, 2013 at 20:48 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Aug 21, 2013 at 20:47 | comment | added | Siva | Thanks, that addresses a part of my question. But I think my question is a little broader. | |
| Aug 21, 2013 at 19:46 | history | asked | Siva | CC BY-SA 3.0 |