CAS: simplify terms seperately?

[Anders]

(09-09-2018 06:06 AM)parisse Wrote:  a:=normal(...) does almost what you want.
If a is a sum, then a[1]=='+' and you can work on individual arguments of the sum with a[2],...,a[n+1] where n=size(a). Therefore here factor(a[2]+a[3])+a[4] will return what you want.

So we've had this up for discussion before:


in Electrical Engineering in general you want to find away to keep all terms in the normalized form that wsprague described through out all your manipulations. It just does not work otherwise. when you move back and forth between frequency domain and time domain. this is true when you use Fourier transform, Laplace transforms and Z transform (for time discreet).

it would be immensely useful for Engineering students (Electrical, Computer, etc), if we have some sort of normalized simplification function like the one you described that almost does it, available as a soft button. (that you could enable through a setting.