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Distributivity : expand fdistrib

expand or fdistrib takes as argument an expression.
expand ou fdistrib returns the expression where the distributivity of the multiplication with respect to the addition is applied.
Input :
expand((x+1)*(x-2))
Or :
fdistrib((x+1)*(x-2))
Output :
x^2-2*x+x-2



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