On Sun, Apr 06, 2025 at 07:11:03AM -0700, Kurt Pagani wrote:
> Either my understanding of lquo/rquo (Category XFreeAlgebra) is wrong or 
> there is a bug in the implementation of these functions in 
> XDistributedPolynomial (XDPOLY).   
> 
> p1:= 3*x*y*x*z -->  3 x y x z
> lquo(p1,3*x*y) --> 9 x z (expected: x z)  
> 
> I think that by "left simplification" is meant mult by a left 
> inverse/recip, similiar as in group theory, although there is no leftRecip 
> of 3*x*y in XDPOLY, of course.  Am I off the track?

Current definition of 'lquo' looks odd, I have noticed this some
time ago.  OTOH there are some odd looking operations on XFreeAlgebra-s
which actually make a lot of sense.  So, it requires some investigative
work to decide if this is a bug or an unfortunate name of operation
needed elsewhere.

-- 
                              Waldek Hebisch

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