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Re: fractional simplification

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• Subject: [mg11874] Re: [mg11828] fractional simplification
• From: "Jürgen Tischer" <jtischer@pitagoras.univalle.edu.co>
• Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 03:45:32 -0500

Pierre, if you REALLY  had this expression, there is no way for
Mathematica to simplify it, because the period means inner product,
i.e. your expression is equivalent to Dot[a,b]/a.

J|rgen

-----Original Message-----
From: Pierre MARTINEU <gro@mail.club-internet.fr> To:
mathgroup@smc.vnet.net
Subject: [mg11874] [mg11828] fractional simplification


>We didn't manage to simplify the symbolic expression : "a . b/a" under
>Mathematica 2.2.
>We've tried using different functions like 'simplify' ...without success
>!
>Is it normal ?
>Do you have any solutions to solve this problem ?
>
>Thanks
>
>Could you send your answer to the following e-mail :
>benet@gro.creditlyonnais .fr
>
>