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Usage

• Expand[expr] expands out products and positive integer powers in expr.
• Expand[expr, patt] leaves unexpanded any parts of expr that are free of the pattern patt.

Notes

• Expand works only on positive integer powers.

• Expand applies only to the top level in expr.

• Expand[expr, Modulus->p] expands expr reducing the result modulo p.

• See Section 1.4.3, Section 1.4.5 and Section 3.3.1.

• See also: Distribute, Apart, Series, Factor, LogicalExpand, TrigExpand, PowerExpand, ExpandAll.

• New in Version 1; modified in 3.

Further Examples