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Comment by oh_my_goodness

9 hours ago

It doesn't, because we might consider different outputs "simple" depending on what we're going to do next.

Sure, an example would be nice.

  • Examples in TFA and at least one in the thread. Or say 4-quadrant atan might be simpler or less simple than 2-quadrant atan, depending on what you're doing next. Lots of stuff like that. Is a factored polynomial simpler than unfactored?