Symbolic numbers a la Sympy, Mathematica, etc (?)

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Symbolic numbers a la Sympy, Mathematica, etc (?) #225

Open non opened 10 years ago

non commented 10 years ago

This is a huge can of worms, but at least one person was interested in this at one point.

The challenge is getting something like this working well enough that it's worth releasing. I expect this work would happen in a long-running branch, or even a separate repo such as spire-symbolic. But it would be soooo nice if we could get it working! :)

denisrosset commented 10 years ago

I have implemented a prototype of expression trees in #269 . Adding support for variables would be quite easy.

What is not easy is to find the correct data structures to implement all the rewrite rules needed for symbolic computation. I have no expertise in that field.