On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote:

> Well probably all transformation/simplification rules can be formulated as
> identities. One possible extension is an identity that only holds for
> certain assumptions, like log(x*y) -> log(x) + log(y). But to really do
> those right, I think we need to flesh out the assumptions system.
>

A good assumptions system would certainly allow a number of very rich
rules. Rewrite rule languages are often prolog-y.


> By the way, the set module might also be an interesting place to play
> around with this, especially given some of the nontrivial stuff like
> http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=3376 that can happen.
>

The set module already has a rudimentary rule-based simplification built
into it with the _union and _intersection methods. The transformations are
separate from how they are applied. This was introduced in
https://github.com/sympy/sympy/pull/1133
https://github.com/sympy/sympy/pull/1164

It should be very easy to lift these to some more general system.

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