Re: Mathematical question: Exponetial function
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- Subject: [mg18101] Re: Mathematical question: Exponetial function
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 12:26:38 -0400
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi, it is shorter to store Power[E,Plus[a,b]] than Times[Power[E,a],Power[E,b]] Only in this consistent way exponents can be simplifyed. There are still other mysteries Why Mathematica simplifyes 4*2 -> 8 a*a -> a^2 Regards Jens Drago Ganic wrote: > > Why Mathematica automaticaly expand > E^u E^v > to > E^(u+v). > > but never the inverse situation, ie. E^(u+v) -> E^u E^v. > > In my textbooks I find that the relation a^(u+v) = a^u a^v is valid for any > a, u, v (also Comlex numbers) except a=0. > > Thanks in advance. > > Drago, > Croatia