Odd phenomenon
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- Subject: [mg109480] Odd phenomenon
- From: "S. B. Gray" <stevebg at ROADRUNNER.COM>
- Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 02:52:53 -0400 (EDT)
- Reply-to: stevebg at ROADRUNNER.COM
I did a symbolic calculation in which x,y,z were treated exactly the same. The result was three long, messy expressions, but the result for x was much simpler than those for y and z, even after FullSimplify. I then changed the expression for x into one for y (z->w,y->z,x->y,w->x) and the expression for x into one for z (x->w, y->x, z->y, w->z). These manually created y,z expressions are identical to the original y,z ones according to FullSimplify[new - old] and they give the same numeric results. Is this surprising? Obviously FullSimplify is not perfect but to get around it was a fair amount of work. Steve Gray
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