is there any way to simplify a polynomial without using simplify from Symbolic Math Toolbox?
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Erwin Avendaño
on 7 Nov 2017
Commented: Walter Roberson
on 9 Nov 2017
z=simplify(y)
set(handles.edit23,'String',inline(z))
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Walter Roberson
on 7 Nov 2017
Yes. However, it is a lot of work. For example the code has to know details such as
sin(x)^3 + cos(x)*sin(x)*cos(x)
should simplify to sin(x)
I think you have forgotten, though, that your input is from the user, and the user is not restricted to entering polynomials.
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Walter Roberson
on 9 Nov 2017
How are you going to enforce that the user can only entry polynomials? You are reading a string from the user.
my polynomial is something like this 4 (x-1) +6 (x-1) (x-5) ) +9 (6-x) (1-x) (5-x)
That has an extra ")" in the middle of it, and is missing multiplication symbols. You are going to need to write a text parser to figure out what the user meant. With forms like that, you cannot even be immediately certain that the maximum degree is 5, since it would be legal for the user to enter a form in which higher order degrees cancelled out, such as the difference between two 6 degree polynomials.
simplify() is not even the correct operation for your purposes:
>> simplify((x+1)*(x+2))
ans =
(x + 1)*(x + 2)
what you want is expand()
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