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Re: Replacement

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  • Subject: [mg4477] Re: Replacement
  • From: rubin at msu.edu (Paul A. Rubin)
  • Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 02:37:29 -0400
  • Organization: Michigan State University
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

In article <4shud7$g7n at ralph.vnet.net>,
   ges at vsnhdd.cern.ch (Sergej Gerassimov) wrote:
->Hi,
->
->I have something like 
->
->x/Sqrt[a^2+b^2]+Sqrt[a^2+b^2]/y 
->
->and I'd like to substitute Sqrt[a^2+b^2] by r.
->
->x/Sqrt[a^2+b^2]+Sqrt[a^2+b^2]/y //. Sqrt[a^2+b^2]->r
->gives:
->
->      x         r
->------------- + -
->Sqrt[a^2+b^2]   y
->
->(replace one only in the numerator)
->How to replace Sqrt[a^2+b^2] by r everywhere in the expression?
->
->Thanks.
->				S.

In[]:=  x/Sqrt[a^2+b^2]+Sqrt[a^2+b^2]/y //. 
        (a^2+b^2)^Rational[ n_, 2 ] -> r^n
Out[]=  x   r
        - + -
        r   y

Paul

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