playboy@wacsvax.OZ (McIsaac K) (01/08/86)
I have been using SMP to generate Rach coefficents and the results have contained large, messy radical expressions of rational numbers. After some thought on how to reduce these expressions I asked myself "Is there a canonical form for such radical expressions?". I have not seen a discussion of this problem. Is there such a form? Are there any papers on this topic? Are there any algorithms for reducing these expressions? Any information on this problem would be appreciated? Thanks Kevin -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kevin McIsaac ACSnet: playboy@wacsvax Dept. Physics UUCP: seismo!munnari!wacsvax.oz!playboy Uni. of Western Australia decvax!mulga!wacsvax.oz!playboy Nedlands, 6009 AUSTRALIA ARPA: munnari!wacsvax.oz!playboy@seismo.arpa decvax!mulga!wacsvax.oz!playboy@Berkeley