Re: question about simplify function
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- Subject: [mg96954] Re: question about simplify function
- From: "Nasser Abbasi" <nma at 12000.org>
- Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 06:41:01 -0500 (EST)
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- Reply-to: "Nasser Abbasi" <nma at 12000.org>
<zxcv_890 at hotmail.com> wrote in message news:go8i2m$l5e$1 at smc.vnet.net... > This seems like a basic question, but I can't see the answer: Why > doesn't either the Simplify or FullSimplify function transform the > expression x/(xy) into 1/y? When I substitute a specific value in for > x, the simplification occurs as expected, e.g., 4/(4y) transforms to 1/ > y. Puzzling. > Jack > Mathematica 7 In[1]:= Simplify[x/(x*y)] Out[1]= 1/y --Nasser