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Re: Re: Simplify Oddity

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  • Subject: [mg59426] Re: [mg59407] Re: Simplify Oddity
  • From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akozlowski at gmail.com>
  • Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 03:30:53 -0400 (EDT)
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On 8 Aug 2005, at 12:17, albert wrote:

> In[7]:= Assuming[{g != 0, r != 0, Element[k,Integers]},Simplify[f1/ 
> f2]]
>
> Out[7]= 1
>


You do not really need the assumptions g!=0 and r!=0.


Assuming[{ Element[k,Integers]},Simplify[f1/f2]]

1

This seems quite reasonable to me since Mathematica will always evaluate


x/x

1

without regard to whether x is 0 or not 1.

Andrzej Kozlowski


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