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Canceling square roots with Simplify

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  • Subject: [mg18211] Canceling square roots with Simplify
  • From: "efarr" <efarr at farr-research.com>
  • Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 20:41:08 -0400
  • Organization: Thunder Network Technologies, Inc.
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hello,

Try typing in the following in a new session of Mathematica (I'm currently
running ver 3.0 under WinNT).

Simplify[ Sqrt[b^2]*Sqrt[1/b^2] ]

It seems like the b's should cancel, and I should get 1. Why don't I? Is
there any workaround?

Thanks very much

Everett G. Farr





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