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The idea reminds me of FORM, popular in Particle physics community:

http://www.nikhef.nl/~form/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FORM_(symbolic_manipulation_sy...

I've actually been a developer of FORM since my PhD (which I did with the author of FORM, Jos Vermaseren)! In Symbolica, I am taking the best features of FORM, while making it easier to use.

Exciting! I've never been an active user, but I always appreciated it as a core tool in QFT calculations.

I even created a simple tool for squaring matrix elements based on FORM:

https://github.com/vindex10/form-square

Thank you for staying creative, for thinking big and expanding beyond HEP :)

I've never got to solve a simple equation under Form. Everything else looks easy, as most of the answers are either tautological or factor arrangements without stating explicit units or magnitudes; but I didn't know how to get numerical answers.

Even by defining functions equally to 0.

I was about to say that.

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