Re: factoring
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- Subject: [mg115089] Re: factoring
- From: Andrea <btlgs2000 at gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 06:29:24 -0500 (EST)
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On Dec 30, 10:09 am, r_poetic <radford.scha... at mms.gov> wrote: > Hello, > an easy question: > > why does Factor[xy-xz+y^2-yz] fail to return (x+y)(y-z), and what > command would do that? > > Thanks! Hi you have to put a space between variables. x y means x times y, xy means a variable with a two letters name