Documentation erratum

asked 2019-01-03 13:08:38 +0100

sagenotdead
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In the official documentation: doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/calculus/sage/symbolic/expression.html

the section related to the command "full_simplify()" should be renamed as "simplify_full()".

answered 2019-01-03 13:36:15 +0100

vdelecroix
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Why is that? Both functions work identically

sage: E = (x^2 + 2*x + 1) / (x + 1)
sage: E
(x^2 + 2*x + 1)/(x + 1)
sage: E.full_simplify()
x + 1
sage: E.simplify_full()
x + 1

Actually one is an alias of the other

sage: E.full_simplify == E.simplify_full

I would rather update the documentation to mention that both names are valid.

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Ok it is. It seems very strange to have such alias (⊙＿⊙')

sagenotdead ( 2019-01-03 14:13:51 +0100 )edit

simplify_full exists so that it appears under tab completion on E.simplify. full_simplify exists maybe because sometimes people use this name (in maple?, in mathematica? for instance)

Sébastien ( 2019-01-03 17:31:45 +0100 )edit

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