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Mathematica Teacher's Edition

Built-in Functions

Algebraic Computation

Formula Manipulation

Cancel

Cancel[expr] cancels out common factors in the numerator and denominator of expr.

Example: Cancel[(x^2-1)/(x-1)].
Cancel cancels out the greatest common divisor of the numerator and denominator.
Cancel[expr, Modulus->p] generates a result modulo p.
Cancel[expr, Extension->Automatic] allows operations to be performed on algebraic numbers in expr.
See The Mathematica Book on the web: Section 1.4.5 and Section 3.3.3.
See also: Apart, GCD.

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