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A common operation in non-numerical analysis is the comparison of symbolic mathematical expressions. Often equivalence under the algebraic and trigonometric relations can be determined with the high probability by hash-coding the expressions using finite field arithmetic and then comparing the resulting hash-code numbers. The use of this scheme in a program for algebraic simplification is discussed.
