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Question: How to differentiate between expanded and factorized expressions when comparing

Question:How to differentiate between expanded and factorized expressions when comparing

Yew Hong 15 Maple
equality
March 18 2012
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I have asked a similar question before but it appears that the difficulty of what I need to do increases when the cases are simpler.

Essentially I want to check that an expression has been fully simplified. Suppose that:

A:=2(a+b);

B:=2a+2b;

 

Is there any way to test so that

evalb(A=B) returns false?

In my case, both A and B are obtained from MathContainers:

A:=GetProperty('MathContainer1','expression');

B:=GetProperty('MathContainer2','expression');

I can't even convert the expression in A to a string -> it immediately becomes "2a+2b".
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