Ralf, I am aware of your altitude to Expression(Integer), moreover I am 
familiar with what are expressions in FriCAS, basically they are what one 
encounters in the theory of symbolic integration.

I don't normally do all the computations in a CAS, sometimes I resort to a 
pen and a paper or pass formulas from a CAS to another program, like 
plotting one. In order to perform such tasks I often wish to have a more 
compact dispay of formulas, I was speaking consciously about ouputted form, 
not the expression itself.

On Monday, December 24, 2012 9:18:50 PM UTC+4, Ralf Hemmecke wrote:
>
> On 12/24/2012 05:05 AM, Grigory Sarnitsky wrote: 
> > And what if I have Expression(Integer) ? Say, 
> > 
> > (5) -> (sin x + y)^3 / ((sin x)^2 + (sin x + z)^3) 
>
> By now I should be known on this mailing list as the person who doesn't 
> like Expression(Integer). Seemingly, everyone thinks that an element of 
> type Expression(Integer) is the same as an expression in Mathematica or 
> Maple. No, it is not! 
>
> In FriCAS, Expression(Integer) is represented as a rational function 
> where the variables are "kernels". Look deeper into the representation. 
>
>
> https://github.com/hemmecke/fricas-svn/blob/master/src/algebra/expr.spad.pamphlet#L113
>  
>
> That's the standard representation with all its consequences. If you 
> want something else, you need something else, not Expression(Integer). 
>
> What in other CAS is done by a simplify function (with unclear 
> semantics) is actually not existent in FriCAS. In FriCAS an element 
> (expression) x of type X is always turned into whatever the type X 
> thinks is appropriate. If you want x to show differently, you'd usually 
> have to coerce it into an appropriate type. 
>
> Look for example at this, maybe it gives you an idea how things would 
> have to be done. The trick is to make your types more specific, not the 
> "all including" Expression(Integer). 
>
> Since you haven't made exactly clear what you actually want to achieve 
> and whether you could perhaps temporarily work with a symbol sx instead 
> of the kernel sin(x), I'm unable to help any further. 
>
> Ralf 
>
>
> (3) -> a:=(2+%i)/(3+x+%i) 
>
>           2 + %i 
>    (3)  ---------- 
>         x + 3 + %i 
>         Type: Fraction(Polynomial(Complex(Integer))) 
> (4) -> a::Complex(Fraction Polynomial Integer) 
>
>            2x + 7          x + 1 
>    (4)  ------------ + ------------ %i 
>          2              2 
>         x  + 6x + 10   x  + 6x + 10 
>         Type: Complex(Fraction(Polynomial(Integer))) 
>

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