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collapse

Maxima Function

Calling Sequence

collapse (expr)

Description

Collapses expr by causing all of its common (i.e., equal) subexpressions to share (i.e., use the same cells), thereby saving space. (collapse is a subroutine used by the optimize command.) Thus, calling collapse may be useful after loading in a save file. You can collapse several expressions together by using collapse ([expr_1, ..., expr_n]). Similarly, you can collapse the elements of the array A by doing collapse (listarray ('A)).

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