Suppose I have an expression which is a collection of symbols and integers arbitrarily combined with Plus and Times. For example, A = a + c (d - a b d) + e c (a + b) f + b - 1 or maybe B = a + b a c d (where a, b, c, d, e, f are all different symbols), although it could be longer and more complicated. I want to estimate the expression by reducing it to only the terms with zero or one symbol multiplied together because the symbols all represent small numbers, and I want a first-order approximation. E.g. Reduced A would be Ar = a+b-1 and reduced B is Br = a. How can I automate this in Mathematica? Assume that any constants are stand-alone and don't have to be distributed.
Reducing a symbolic expression to only its lowest-order terms
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