Re: Eliminating common factors?
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- Subject: [mg93371] Re: Eliminating common factors?
- From: AES <siegman at stanford.edu>
- Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 04:54:19 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Stanford University
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In article <gepb1g$sg6$1 at smc.vnet.net>, SigmundV <sigmundv at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Well, any of Expand, Simplify, Together, Apart ... will do (at least
> with the actual expression, you posted). However, why did you post the
> expression in TeX syntax? Wouldn't it be easier to type 4(a/4+b/4 c)?
Since this has been asked twice: I just wanted to emphasize that the
output was appearing as two *display fractions*, i.e. something like
a b
4 ( ------ + ------------ )
4 4 c
in case it made any difference; and I wanted do this without messing
with typing something like the above, and worrying about whether it
would display properly with different fonts that were or were not
monospaced.
[The math and computer gurus posting on this group sometimes seem to
assume everyone will know their arcane lingo; I was assuming they would
know at least some basic TeX syntax, since it's a lingua franca for
every colleague (and grad student) that I know.]
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