Re: Showing that ArcSinh[2]/ArcCsch[2] is 3?
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- Subject: [mg73550] Re: Showing that ArcSinh[2]/ArcCsch[2] is 3?
- From: "sashap" <pavlyk at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 06:03:54 -0500 (EST)
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Dear David, It is the case in the CAS and in the real life as well that proving left hand side equal to right hand side is easier than deriving what right hand side the left hand side equals to. I can not think of a direct way to use built-in 'knowledge' to reduce ArcSinh[2]/ArcCsch[2] to 3, but want to point out that proving it post-factum does not seem problematic: In[3]:= ArcSinh[2]/ArcCsch[2]-3//FullSimplify Out[3]= 0 Sincerely, Oleksandr Pavlyk Special Functions Developer Wolfram Research Inc On Feb 20, 5:24 am, "David W.Cantrell" <DWCantr... at sigmaxi.net> wrote: > I hope I've just overlooked something very simple. > I want to transform ArcSinh[2]/ArcCsch[2] to 3, using just "knowledge" > already implemented in Mathematica. I tried FullSimplify first, and it > doesn't help. I tried several other things. For example, > > TrigToExp[ArcSinh[2]/ArcCsch[2]] yields > > Log[2 + Sqrt[5]]/Log[1/2 + Sqrt[5]/2]. > > But then how should we transform that to 3? > > David