Re: Expansion of an exponential expression
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- Subject: [mg47240] Re: Expansion of an exponential expression
- From: "Peter Pein" <no at spam.no>
- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 02:59:45 -0500 (EST)
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"Carlos Felippa" <carlos at colorado.edu> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:c4bdrj$6uu$1 at smc.vnet.net... > As a result of some calculations I have > (a snipet of a more complex expression) > > anlog= Log[ ((2 + Sqrt[1 + 2*h])^(-1))^(t/h) ] > > I would like to simplify this to > > anlog= (t/h) Log[((2 + Sqrt[1 + 2*h])^(-1)) ] > > so I can then take the Taylor series in h. > But FullSimplify[anlog,h>0] doesnt do it. > Do i need a ComplexityFunction? > In[4]:= FullSimplify[anlog, h > 0 && t \[Element] Reals] Out[4]= -((t*Log[2 + Sqrt[1 + 2*h]])/h) You can enter <esc>elem<esc> for \[Element] -- Peter Pein, Berlin StringReplace["petsie at arcand.de", Rule@@(ToLowerCase@ToString@Head@#&)/@{William&&S,2b||!2b}]