Timeline for Is there a "mathematical" definition of "simplify"?
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| Apr 5, 2013 at 5:48 | comment | added | Carlo Beenakker | thank you, Jacques, for the link, I updated the reference. | |
| Apr 5, 2013 at 5:48 | history | edited | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 5, 2013 at 0:12 | comment | added | Jacques Carette | These 'notes' are published (dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1005298). However, this was my first solo paper [so I stand behind the ideas, but I shudder at how awful the write-up is]. I really ought to write a better version of this. | |
| Apr 5, 2013 at 0:01 | comment | added | Jacques Carette | Note that the definition of 'simplest', as given in that paper relativizes: given a theory of what the reader currently 'understand', then the simplest expression is one which is shortest with respect to expressions relative to that theory. | |
| Apr 4, 2013 at 15:26 | comment | added | user112109 | I do not believe that minimum description length is always the best understandable form (compare polynomials in nested parentheses or ordered by exponent). But in my opinion simplifying something means to get an expression that is better understandable. | |
| Apr 4, 2013 at 14:18 | history | answered | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |