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• Subject: [mg107812] [mg107812] Square root of a square
• From: Mariano Suárez-Alvarez <mariano.suarezalvarez at gmail.com>
• Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:13:09 -0500 (EST)

Hi all,

Mathematica evaluates FullSimplify[Sqrt[x^2]] to Sqrt[x^2], while it
tells me that FullSimplify[Sqrt[x^2] == x] is True.
Are these the expected answers?

-- m

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