Maple Professional
Maple Academic
Maple Student Edition
Maple Personal Edition
Maple Player
Maple Player for iPad
MapleSim Professional
MapleSim Academic
Maple T.A. - Testing & Assessment
Maple T.A. MAA Placement Test Suite
Möbius - Online Courseware
Machine Design / Industrial Automation
Aerospace
Vehicle Engineering
Robotics
Power Industries
System Simulation and Analysis
Model development for HIL
Plant Modeling for Control Design
Robotics/Motion Control/Mechatronics
Other Application Areas
Mathematics Education
Engineering Education
High Schools & Two-Year Colleges
Testing & Assessment
Students
Financial Modeling
Operations Research
High Performance Computing
Physics
Live Webinars
Recorded Webinars
Upcoming Events
MaplePrimes
Maplesoft Blog
Maplesoft Membership
Maple Ambassador Program
MapleCloud
Technical Whitepapers
E-Mail Newsletters
Maple Books
Math Matters
Application Center
MapleSim Model Gallery
User Case Studies
Exploring Engineering Fundamentals
Teaching Concepts with Maple
Maplesoft Welcome Center
Teacher Resource Center
Student Help Center
testeq - random polynomial-time equivalence tester
Calling Sequence
testeq(a = b)
testeq(a, b)
testeq(a)
Parameters
a, b
-
algebraic expressions
Description
The function testeq tests for equivalence probabilistically. It returns false if the expressions are not equal (or not equal to 0) and true otherwise for the class of expressions that testeq recognizes. The result false is always correct; the result true may be incorrect with very low probability.
This function will succeed over expressions formed with rational constants, independent variables, and I, combined by arithmetic operations, exponentials, trigonometrics and a few others. It may also succeed with some expressions involving algebraic constants and functions and involving Pi as an argument of trigonometrics. If the expressions do not fall in this class, testeq returns FAIL. testeq may also return FAIL if it cannot find an appropriate modulus that works after seven trials.
Examples
See Also
evalb
References
Gonnet, Gaston. "Determining Equivalence of Expressions in Random Polynomial Time." Proceedings of the 16th ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing. Washington DC. April 1984. pp. 334-341.
Download Help Document