Re: Simplify
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- Subject: [mg98728] Re: Simplify
- From: "Sjoerd C. de Vries" <sjoerd.c.devries at gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:27:37 -0400 (EDT)
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Ignore my answer, please. Made a silly mistake Cheers -- Sjoerd On Apr 16, 10:16 am, "Sjoerd C. de Vries" <sjoerd.c.devr... at gmail.com> wrote: > It doesn't simplify to that because the two are not equivalent. Try I > for x and -1 for y. > > Cheers, > > Sjoerd > > On Apr 15, 11:01 am, dh <d... at metrohm.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > can somebody explain, why > > > Simplify[x^2/y^2,ComplexityFunction->LeafCount] > > > does not simplify to (x/y)^2, although the LeafCount is: > > > LeafCount[Hold[x^2/y^2]] gives 10 > > > and > > > LeafCount[Hold[(x/y)^2]] gives 8 > > > Daniel