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From: playboy@wacsvax.OZ (McIsaac K)
Newsgroups: net.math.symbolic
Subject: Canonical Form for Radical Expressions
Message-ID: <251@wacsvax.OZ>
Date: Tue, 7-Jan-86 20:58:03 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan  7 20:58:03 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 9-Jan-86 06:07:22 EST
Organization: Comp Sci, Uni. Western Australia
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Keywords: Canonical Radical

I have been using SMP to generate Rach coefficents and the results have
contained large, messy radical expressions of rational numbers. After
some thought on how to reduce these expressions  I asked myself "Is
there a canonical form for such radical expressions?".  I have not seen
a discussion of this problem.  Is there such a form? Are there any
papers on this topic? Are there any algorithms for reducing these
expressions? Any information on this problem would be appreciated?

Thanks Kevin

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