Questions tagged [factorization]
Questions on factoring various types of mathematical expressions, with the use of Factor, FactorInteger, FactorSquareFree and related commands.
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Approximate Simplify (or factorization) [closed]
Suppose I have
$$(2+2a+a^2)(RC)^2 + RC(5+2a)t+t^2$$
I can factor $(2+2a+a^2) = 1+(1+a)^2$. When I assume $a \gg 1$ then $1+(1+a)^2\approx (1+a)^2$. Then I can write:
$$(a+1)^2(RC)^2 + 2RC(5/2+a)t+t^...
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Factor not factoring quadratic polynomial [closed]
I'm using version 11.3
Expand[(Sqrt[2] - t)^2]
2 - 2 Sqrt[2] t + t^2,
but
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Multiple collection of terms
As the title suggests, I am interested in how to perform multiple collection of terms. This means that for a given expression a*x*b + c*x^2*d+a*x*k, I want to ...
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Can Mathematica factor out constrained functions when it simplifies? [closed]
For example, distributions in the exponential family take a likelihood function of the form $$f(x)g(\theta)e^{\phi(\theta)^{T}u(x)}$$. Given some ugly algebraic expression, can I tell mathematica to ...
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Simplifying expressions: factorization: reverse distributive property
Is there any Mathematica of the type Factor, FullSimplify, etc. that fully reverses distributive property?
I mean, is there a simple way to turn the expression
$$ e^{x(t,r)}+e^{x(t,r)+y(t,r)}+e^{x(t,...
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Efficient code for minimum integer with given number of factors
I'm seeking an efficient implementation of the number-theoretic function giving the smallest integer $n$ that has exactly $k$ factors (not necessarily prime):
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Factoring out a parameter
I have some function:
f[a_,b_,c_]:=Sqrt[a^2+b^2+c^2]
Is there a way that I can factor out parameter (variable) b like this:
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What Transforming Functions does Simplify use? [closed]
Edit: Turns out in my use case I should use ComplexExpand instead of Simplify. My broader question is still worth answering, but ...
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Numerical output using Select and FactorInteger
I have concocted a function from other peoples examples to find the powers of two in a prime decompostion, in the example below its $2^2=4$ gives {2,2}.
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Factoring expression with rational powers
To any great Mathematica-matician. Why Mathematica can’t factor this
Factor[-1+x^(2/3)]
I know that Factor mainly targets ...
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Generate terms that can be pre-calculated (optimisation) [closed]
(copyable version)
v -> -2 g/j + s/(2 j) + s^2/(4 g j) + t/2
We are working with many equations similar to the one above. We are using CForm to move these ...
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Factoring the Quadratic Polynomial $a x^2 +b x +c$
I want mathematica to factor the quadratic polynomial $a x^2 +b x +c$ into this standard form $a(x-r_1)(x-r_2)$ with $r_1=-\frac{b}{2a}+\frac{\sqrt{b^2-4ac}}{2a}$ and $r_2=-\frac{b}{2a}-\frac{\sqrt{b^...
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Polynomial factorization over number fields that are extensions of the rationals [duplicate]
I want to factor some polynomials into irreducible terms, but not only limited to integers.
If I evaluate Factor[x^4+1], it will generate nothing.
But in fact I ...
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Factor out constant terms with square roots
I would like to use FactorTerms to factor out constant numerical terms out of an expression, this works as follows:
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Prime factorization of numerator and denominator of rationals
I am completely new to Mathematica and I need some help (sorry if it is trivial, but I haven't found the answer). I have this code
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How to use Replace using some factor from exponent in the replacement rule
Is it possible to directly factor out some exponent to some specific form and replace by some rule?
For example I have
exp1=x^4
I want to use replacement
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How to factor exponents?
Given
Exp[a+b]
I want to turn it into
Exp[a] Exp[b]
How can I achieve this in general? That is I am looking for more or ...
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Code I get from wolfram isn't working in mathematica
I need to perform the factor as shown here
factor(s^5+32s^4+363s^3+2092s^2+5052s+4320)
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=factor(s%5E5%2B32s%5E4%2B363s%5E3%...
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Checking whether one polynomial is a factor of another
Given two polynomials, $f(x)$ and $g(x)$, I need to determine whether $f(x)$ is a factor of $g(x)$. Seems simple enough, and the way I initially did it was just checking if $f(x)$ is in a FactorList ...
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Advanced Trivariate Polynomial With Integer Coefficients Manipulation
Suppose $$f(a,b,c)=\left(a+b+c \right)^{2}-2 \left(a^{2}+b^{2}+c^{2}\right)-4abc$$ and $g(a,b,c)$ is some polynomial of total degree 6 with integer coeffients.
I want to find a polynomial $h(x)$ with ...
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How can Mathematica take a prefactor in front of the relation
I have the following term in an expression
$$\frac{q_B' \sin2q_B}{P_B Q_B^2}(2 Q_B P_B - \sin^2 q_B \Pi_B) q_1 q_1'$$
the prime denotes differentiation w.r.t a coordinate. Some additional ...
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wrong LUDecomposition - first row is the last one
I am having a huge problem with my Mathematica notebook.
I am trying to evaluate LUDecomposition and it keeps getting wrong - when I multiply ...
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How to convert an expression a + b*Sqrt[c] to a simpler format?
Example: we have the following expansions:
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how to extract the elements of the output of FactorInteger function? [closed]
For example, when I evaluate
FactorInteger[265^2 - 87463]
the output is
{{-1, 1}, {2, 1}, {3, 1}, {13, 2}, {17, 1}}
I ...
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Factor by a specific literal (i.e factor by $s^N$ a transfer function)
I've found the closed loop transfer function but I want to know the order of it. So, the idea is to factor the denominator by the highest exponent of s to get an expression like this one:
$$
l(s)=g(s)...
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Scalar multiplication of an expression containing equality [duplicate]
Suppose:
expr=(a x + a y==0);
expr/a
(*Out:=(a x + a y==0)/a*)
I want a eliminated to obtain ...
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Why Mathematica can not factorize polynomials over algebraic fields?
I noticed that a factorization over algebraic fields is useless in Mathematica. Here is the example over the field containing I*Sqrt[3]:
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Factor fails on a simple expression
Bug introduced in 9.0 and fixed in 11.3.0
Consider the following symbolic expression (all the c's are undefined)
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Factor Recursively
I'm looking for a way to factor a polynomial recursively. Consider the following example:
expr = Expand[(a + (b + c)^2)^2];
Factor@expr
Simplify@expr
While the ...
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Factor a bivariate polynomial treating one variable as constant
I have a polynomial in two variables, e.g.
16384 k^4 - 20480 k^2 + x^4 - 320 k^2 x^2 - 128 x^2 + 4096
I'd like Mathematica to factor it as
$$(x^2 - f(k))(x^2 - g(...
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How to factorize polynomials into “shortest possible” pieces
I am using Factor a lot in my work, it is extremely versatile and efficient, except for one aspect. Example: ...
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Why is Mathematica factoring I out of real expressions, and how can I reverse it?
I am doing some complicated series expansions involving integrals and whatnot, but everything is real the whole time (and I specify that using Assumptions at every ...
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Factorize trigonometric matrices
Consider two square matrices $A_1$ and $A_2$. Consider the following matrix involving matrix trigonometric functions:
\begin{equation}
M_1(t)=\begin{bmatrix} \cos(tA_1) & t\mathrm{sinc}(t A_1) \\ ...
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Factorize expression into matrix/vector operations if possible
I'd like to let MMA factorize an expression (tensor) into matrix operations if that's possible.
Example – there's an expression P1 and I want MMA to create another ...
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Put in evidence and return 1 if already fully factorised
Does anyone have a clever idea how to get the overall factor in front of a polynomial or just return 1 if everything is already put in evidence ?
Here is an example with a dummy ...
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Simplify with Integer Factorization
I have some outputs of Solve applied to algebraic equations with combinatorial coefficients (i.e. integers), and I'd like to see the results from ...
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Collect function with iterator issue
I've got the following code for the first few terms of an expansion. I want to collect the terms in increasing powers of (s/r) but using an iterator. The code is as ...
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Simplify to the specific form
I want to simply expression into specific form that I want to have. For example,
$e^{-v^2}\frac{ (a*v-b)}{c*v^2-d*v+e}$
(-b + a v)/(e - d v + c v^2) Exp[-v^2]
I ...
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Factor Denominator of Fraction [closed]
How do I get Mathematica to factor the denominator of a fraction? For example, to turn
$$\frac{1}{s^2+3s+2}$$
into
$$\frac{1}{(s+1)(s+2)}.$$
I tried Factor, but it ...
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Powers of prime factors of a positive integer $n$ in “Mathematica”?
I would like to find the powers of a prime in the unique prime factorization of an $n$. I want a function $f[n,p]$ such that $n,p$ are given and I need to know what the power of $p$ is. For instance
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What prevents Factor from Working also on Arguments of Sqrt in Expressions?
Consider this example (intersection of a line and a sphere):
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Factorization of a fractional multivariate polynomial
Suppose I have given a fractional multivariate polynomial
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Factor a polynomial over the reals
I can't seem to find a function in Mathematica that factors a polynomial over the reals. Obviously, Factor doesn't work since it works over the integers, over $\mathbb{Z}_p$, or some algebraic fields ...
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Factorization of a polynomial fraction to a certain combinations of other polynomial fractions
I currently am working on a project for to find some new algebra structures. But I faced with a factorization problem which I cannot come out of it! I could find the lower dimensional of it. But I ...
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Factoring for exponents
How can I factorise into powers of integer exponents?
An expression such as,
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