Maxima Function
ratsubst (a, b, c)
Substitutes a for b in c and returns the resulting expression.
b may be a sum, product, power, etc.
ratsubst
knows something of the meaning of expressions
whereas subst
does a purely syntactic substitution.
Thus subst (a, x + y, x + y + z)
returns x + y + z
whereas ratsubst
returns z + a
.
When radsubstflag
is true
,
ratsubst
makes substitutions for radicals in expressions
which don't explicitly contain them.
Examples:
(%i1) ratsubst (a, x*y^2, x^4*y^3 + x^4*y^8); 3 4 (%o1) a x y + a (%i2) cos(x)^4 + cos(x)^3 + cos(x)^2 + cos(x) + 1; 4 3 2 (%o2) cos (x) + cos (x) + cos (x) + cos(x) + 1 (%i3) ratsubst (1 - sin(x)^2, cos(x)^2, %); 4 2 2 (%o3) sin (x) - 3 sin (x) + cos(x) (2 - sin (x)) + 3 (%i4) ratsubst (1 - cos(x)^2, sin(x)^2, sin(x)^4); 4 2 (%o4) cos (x) - 2 cos (x) + 1 (%i5) radsubstflag: false$ (%i6) ratsubst (u, sqrt(x), x); (%o6) x (%i7) radsubstflag: true$ (%i8) ratsubst (u, sqrt(x), x); 2 (%o8) u