Re: Convincing Mathematica that Sqrt[a+b]Sqrt[a-b]==Sqrt[a^2+b^2]
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- Subject: [mg63312] Re: Convincing Mathematica that Sqrt[a+b]Sqrt[a-b]==Sqrt[a^2+b^2]
- From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at earthlink.net>
- Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 05:08:35 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
On 12/20/05 at 11:35 PM, hattons at globalsymmetry.com (Steven T. Hatton) wrote: >Is there a way to convince Mathematica to multiply >Sqrt[a+b]Sqrt[a-b] to produce Sqrt[a^2+b^2]? Well there is: In[1]:= z = Sqrt[a + b]*Sqrt[a - b]; Sqrt[Expand[z^2]] Out[2]= Sqrt[a^2 - b^2] -- To reply via email subtract one hundred and four