Timeline for Why unlike terms cannot be simplified?
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| Dec 15, 2015 at 19:17 | history | edited | Jasper | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 15, 2015 at 18:49 | comment | added | Behzad | No, that's not the point. I don't use "simplification" as a mechanical and by-the-law process. The question is "Why $x^2+3xy^2+4xy+7x^2y \neq x^3-3xy+9x^2y^3$?" (for example!). Why can't we do "anything" to this polynomial? | |
| Dec 15, 2015 at 18:25 | history | edited | Jasper | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 15, 2015 at 18:17 | history | answered | Jasper | CC BY-SA 3.0 |