thanks!  see below.

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 15:47, krastanov.ste...@gmail.com <
krastanov.ste...@gmail.com> wrote:

> It would be a strain to say that sympy has a nicely abstracted rule
> set. In most of the code all such rules are just a part of the logic
> of the methods of the class in question.
>
> For example (a+a) ---> 2*a is just part of the Add __new__ method.
> When you call Add(a,a) it would apply appropriate rules and give you
> Mul(2,a).
>
> There is occasionally discussion about abstracting better such rules,
> but this is not yet done.
>
> So if you want an object that simplifies automatically in a certain
> way, just implement the rules in the __new__ method or a helper
> function and you will be good to go. It is not the cleanest solution,
> but is how most of the stuff is done at the moment.
>
> I hope that this answers you question.
>
> BTW, there is a statistics module that implements many useful idioms
> from probability theory and there is a set class that will definitely
> can be extended if you are interested in helping.
>

Looking into this. For now, most interested in FiniteSet, usefull for
discrete probability.
But to be usefull, a part of the definition of a FiniteSet should be its
Universe, I cannot see it is
that now. How should that be done? Extending the definition, as it is now,
or
assum that the user defines a superclass of FiniteSet (not sure about the
Python terminology here...)
in a certain way?

Kjetil

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