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Re: Expanding Trig Power Identities

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• Subject: [mg30417] Re: Expanding Trig Power Identities
• From: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
• Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 03:09:55 -0400 (EDT)
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Matthias,
It appears that TrigReduce need exact input: it works if we replace .5 in
your example with 1/2.

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<Matthias.Bode at oppenheim.de> wrote in message
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> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I tried Bob Hanlon's TrigReduce Table changing n from "{n, 4}" to "{n, 1,
3,
> 0.5}":
>
> Table[{y = Sin[a]*Sin[b]^n, "=", TrigReduce[y]}, {n, 1, 3, 0.5}] //
> TableForm
>
> and neither the integer nor the non-integer exponent expressions evaluated
> whereas the original example "{n, 4}" evaluates just fine. Why?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Matthias Bode
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>
>
> -----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
> Von: BobHanlon at aol.com [mailto:BobHanlon at aol.com]
> Gesendet: Sonntag, 12. August 2001 08:30
> An: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> Betreff:  Expanding Trig Power Identities
>
>
> Table[{y = Sin[a]*Sin[b]^n, "=", TrigReduce[y]}, {n, 4}] // TableForm
>
> Table[{y = Cos[a]*Cos[b]^n, "=", TrigReduce[y]}, {n, 4}] // TableForm
>
>
> Bob Hanlon
> Chantilly, VA  USA
>