Online Algebra Calculator
Many of users do not use powerful Maxima computer algebra system for systematic work, but for ad hoc algebraic calculations – equations, functions, matrixes, etc. only. To do this job, it is not useful to download the whole application from a web site.
Function: collectterms (<expr>, <arg_1>, ..., <arg_n>) If several expressions have been simplified with facsum
, factorfacsum
, factenexpand
, facexpten
or factorfacexpten
, and they are to be added together, it may be desirable to combine them using the function collecterms
. collecterms
can take as arguments all of the arguments that can be given to these other associated functions with the exception of nextlayerfactor
, which has no effect on collectterms
. The advantage of collectterms
is that it returns a form similar to facsum
, but since it is adding forms that have already been processed by facsum
, it does not need to repeat that effort. This capability is especially useful when the expressions to be summed are very large.
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