#10268: adding GiNaC method to simplify_rational
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   Reporter:  bgoodri       |       Owner:  burcin    
       Type:  enhancement   |      Status:  needs_work
   Priority:  minor         |   Milestone:  sage-4.6.2
  Component:  symbolics     |    Keywords:            
     Author:  Ben Goodrich  |    Upstream:  N/A       
   Reviewer:                |      Merged:            
Work_issues:                |  
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Comment(by burcin):

 Replying to [comment:6 bgoodri]:
 > Replying to [comment:5 burcin]: cc'ing William for clarification
 >
 > > I haven't looked into the functionality in `normal.cpp` much, but one
 of William's goals was to make it call Singular (or the Factory library)
 to factor multivariate polynomials instead of the code in ginac. This
 library generally performs much better and it is actively being developed.
 >
 > Do you really want to do full factorization in `simplify_rational()`. I
 think neither Maxima nor GiNaC do that, only square-free factorization and
 gcd cancellation. We could add an option to do full factorization of the
 numerator  and denominator before returning. If so, would it make more
 sense to first backport the functionality in factor.cpp from GiNaC 1.5.x
 to the pynac fork than to code a pynac-libSingular link?

 Sorry for the confusion. I meant to say gcd.

 Now that there is a separate ticket for the bug in the pynac gcd, #10284,
 I will post my response to the other questions there.

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