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This exercise looks at the recursive application of rewrite rules, using logic programming. A rewrite rule (or demodulator in terminology) is an equation with a specified direction. For example, the rewrite rule $x+0 \rightarrow x$ suggests replacing any expression that matches $x+0$ with the expression $x$. Rewrite rules are a key component of equational reasoning systems. Use the predicate rewrite(X,Y) to represent rewrite rules. For example, the earlier rewrite rule is written as rewrite(X+0,X). Some terms are primitive and cannot be further simplified; thus, we write primitive(0) to say that 0 is a primitive term.

1. Write a definition of a predicate simplify(X,Y), that is true when Y is a simplified version of X—that is, when no further rewrite rules apply to any subexpression of Y.
   

2. Write a collection of rules for the simplification of expressions involving arithmetic operators, and apply your simplification algorithm to some sample expressions.
   

3. Write a collection of rewrite rules for symbolic differentiation, and use them along with your simplification rules to differentiate and simplify expressions involving arithmetic expressions, including exponentiation.