Re: Forcing surds into the numerator
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- Subject: [mg64687] Re: Forcing surds into the numerator
- From: "Tony King" <mathstutoring at ntlworld.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 00:18:36 -0500 (EST)
- References: <dtp5pv$eq8$1@smc.vnet.net>
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Thanks to everyone who has answered this post - perhaps Wolfram may, at some stage, include a SurdForm routine in either the kernel or a package. Best wishes Tony "Tony King" <mathstutoring at ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:dtp5pv$eq8$1 at smc.vnet.net... > Does anyone know how I can force Mathematica to display surds in the > numerator of an expression, or a function that can be applied to do the > job? > > For example, FullSimplify[1/(3+Sqrt[2])] returns itself and not 1/7 > (3-root2) > > Similarly, Sin[Pi/12] returns (-1+root3)/(2root2) and not 1/4 > (root6-root2) > > Many thanks > > Tony >