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Re: Canceling square roots with Simplify

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  • Subject: [mg18229] Re: [mg18211] Canceling square roots with Simplify
  • From: Maarten.vanderBurgt at icos.be
  • Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:24:14 -0400
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Everett,

Try

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

maarten

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"efarr" <efarr at farr-research.com> on 23-06-99 02:41:08 AM


Subject: [mg18229]  [mg18211] Canceling square roots with Simplify




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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