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in thread Algorithm for cancelling common factors between two lists of multiplicands

I think the canceling code should stay, because it's faster to toss out matching terms than to multiply and then divide them out.

Care to run a benchmark with and without?

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Re^6: Algorithm for cancelling common factors between two lists of multiplicands
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Aug 13, 2005 at 01:55 UTC

    See Re^6: Algorithm for cancelling common factors between two lists of multiplicands (192.5 ms).

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