Re: Mathematica's FactorialSimplify command
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- Subject: [mg8553] Re: Mathematica's FactorialSimplify command
- From: Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au>
- Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 23:16:19 -0400
- Organization: University of Western Australia
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Amy Calhoun wrote: > I am trying to figure out how to use a Mathematica package that contains the > command FactorialSimplify. I assume then that this a version 2.2 package. The functionality of FactorialSimplify has been absorbed into FullSimplify (or you can use FunctionExpand): In[1]:= FunctionExpand[(n + 1)!/(n - 3)!] Out[1]= (n - 2) (n - 1) n (n + 1) In[2]:= FullSimplify[(n + 1)!/(n - 3)!] Out[2]= (n - 2) (n - 1) n (n + 1) In[3]:= FunctionExpand[Gamma[n + 2]/(n - 3)!] Out[3]= (n - 2) (n - 1) n (n + 1) In[4]:= FullSimplify[Gamma[n + 2]/(n - 3)!] Out[4]= (n - 2) (n - 1) n (n + 1) In 3.0, if you replace all occurences of FactorialSimplify by FunctionExpand it should work. > In the book "A=B" there are several references to > a Mathematica command called FactorialSimplify. The book says that the command > can be found in the package DiscreteMath`RSolve`. I've loaded this package and > I've not found the command, and the help command just returns that > FactorialSimplify is a global variable. You have probably already "referred" to FactorialSimplify (by entering it before loading the package DiscreteMath`RSolve`). If you To stick with the 2.2 you should load Needs["DiscreteMath`RSolve`"] before you call FactorialSimplify. Cheers, Paul ____________________________________________________________________ Paul Abbott Phone: +61-8-9380-2734 Department of Physics Fax: +61-8-9380-1014 The University of Western Australia Nedlands WA 6907 mailto:paul at physics.uwa.edu.au AUSTRALIA http://www.pd.uwa.edu.au/Paul God IS a weakly left-handed dice player ____________________________________________________________________