Re: Simplify expressions
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- Subject: [mg47906] Re: Simplify expressions
- From: "David W. Cantrell" <DWCantrell at sigmaxi.org>
- Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 19:40:09 -0400 (EDT)
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steger at wif.gess.ethz.ch (Thomas Steger) wrote: > Consider the following expression: > a+z*k^(b-1)*c^(d-1) > > Given that y==z*k^b*c^d I would like Mathematica to simplfy the > preceding expression to: > a+y/(k*c) > > However, the following command does not work > Simplify[a + z*k^(b - 1)*c^(d - 1), y == z*k^b*c^d] > > Does anyone has a suggestion? What version are you using? Using version 5.0.0, what you wanted to work does work: In[1]:= Simplify[a + z*k^(b - 1)*c^(d - 1), y == z*k^b*c^d] Out[1]= a + y/(c*k) David Cantrell