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Landau's algorithm

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In mathematics, Landau's algorithm, named after its creator Susan Landau, is an algorithm for deciding which nested radicals can be denested.[1]

Notes and references

  1. ^ Landau, Susan (1992), "Simplification of nested radicals", SIAM Journal on Computing, 21 (1): 85–110, doi:10.1137/0221009 (link to a conference version that can be viewed by anyone)