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Dear maple team.

I would like to suggest something about the treatment that Maple makes of arithmetic modulo 2.
If you write the command:"x+x mod 2", the Maple output is "0", because "x+x" is always even. Perfect.
The problem I have is:
When  you write "x^2 + x mod 2", the Maple output is "x^2 + x"  instead of "0". Maple doesn't takes into account when simplifying that all the variables are idempotent modulo 2 (i.e, x*x = x)

If I write

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