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Simplify (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] threelonmusketeers 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Couldn't you combine a lot of like terms as you went along, though? A polynomial of the order x^26^ would only have 27 terms.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

No, because each coefficient is its own variable; they're not constants.

[–] threelonmusketeers 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Huh, I'm so used to polynomials being in the form ax^2 + bx + c that I never considered that every letter might be a variable.