Simplify Oddity
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- Subject: [mg59399] Simplify Oddity
- From: AES <siegman at stanford.edu>
- Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 03:34:51 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Stanford University
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
I'm supposing that the following rather odd result has something to do
with Mathematica being concerned that g or r (or k?) might be complex
numbers?
In[151] :=
f1 = g (g/r)^(k-1);
f2 = g^k/r^(k-1);
f1/f2 // FullSimplify
Out[151] = g^(-k) (g/r)^k r^k
But shouldn't Mathematic be able to simplify this to unity nonetheless?
-- maybe without even invoking Simplify?
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