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Re: Simplification of radicals

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  • Subject: [mg43308] Re: Simplification of radicals
  • From: bobhanlon at aol.com (Bob Hanlon)
  • Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 04:55:05 -0400 (EDT)
  • References: <bi7lhb$ojv$1@smc.vnet.net>
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

You have to give Simplify an assumption that would result in the form for which
you are looking.

Simplify[Sqrt[1/x^2] Sqrt[x^2], Element[x, Reals]]

1

Simplify[Sqrt[1/x^2] Sqrt[x^2], Im[x]==0]

1

Simplify[Sqrt[1/x^2] Sqrt[x^2], x>=0]

1

Simplify[Sqrt[1/x^2] Sqrt[x^2], x<0]

1

or the assumption can be implied as with PowerExpand

Sqrt[1/x^2] Sqrt[x^2]//PowerExpand

1


Bob Hanlon

In article <bi7lhb$ojv$1 at smc.vnet.net>, akhmel at hotmail.com (Alex) wrote:

<< I tried this simple example

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Cell[CellGroupData[{
Cell[BoxData[
    \(Simplify[\(\@\(1\/x\^2\)\) \@x\^2]\)], "Input"],

Cell[BoxData[
    \(\@\(1\/x\^2\)\ \@x\^2\)], "Output"]
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