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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
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> 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)

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