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Re: How to evaluate Exp[I Pi(1+x)]? version=2.55

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  • Subject: [mg52766] Re: [mg52702] How to evaluate Exp[I Pi(1+x)]? version=2.55
  • From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
  • Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 04:22:00 -0500 (EST)
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I assumed that x is real, which is of course unnecessary. One can use:


FullSimplify[ComplexExpand[Exp[I*Pi*(1 + x)], {x}]]


-E^(I*Pi*x)

which does not make this assumption.

Andrzej


On 10 Dec 2004, at 11:15, Andrzej Kozlowski wrote:

>
> On 10 Dec 2004, at 10:23, hello wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to evaluate Exp[I Pi (1+x)]? I am expecting to see the
>> result to be:
>>
>> -Exp[I Pi x]
>>
>> because Exp[I Pi] can be reduced to shorter form.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> Hello?
>
> FullSimplify[ComplexExpand[Exp[I*Pi*(1 + x)]],
>   x $B":(B Reals]
>
>
> -E^(I*Pi*x)
>
>
>
> Andrzej Kozlowski
> Chiba, Japan
> http://www.akikoz.net/~andrzej/
> http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~akoz/
>


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