Re: Radicals simplify
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- Subject: [mg106439] Re: Radicals simplify
- From: dh <dh at metrohm.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:16:35 -0500 (EST)
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Hi Murray, stright from the manual: "With the default setting ComplexityFunction->Automatic, forms are ranked primarily according to their LeafCount, with corrections to treat integers with more digits as more complex." Daniel Murray Eisenberg wrote: > Mathematica 7 documentation does NOT say that LeafCount is the criterion > for determining simplicity, that is, the default value of > ComplexityFunction. Rather it says: > > "The default ComplexityFunction counts the subexpressions and digits > of integers." > > But it does not even say how it combines the counts of the number of > subexpressions and digits of integers! > > On 1/11/2010 5:30 AM, dh wrote: >> Hi, >> >> why do you think x(x^2 y^3)^(1/4) is simpler than (x^6 y^3)^(1/4)? >> >> Mathematica needs some criterion for this decision. The default criterion is the >> >> "LeafCount[..]". If that does not suit you, you must define another >> >> criterion. >> >> Daniel >> >> >> >> francix wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> I am using Matematica 7 and need some help with Radicals. >>> If I do >>> Simplify[(x^4 y^3)^(1/4), x>= 0] I correctly have >>> x (y^3)^(1/4) >>> But If I do >>> Simplify[(x^6 y^3)^(1/4), x>= 0] I get >>> (x^6 y^3)^(1/4) and not the correct answer x(x^2 y^3)^(1/4) >>> Thanks in advanced. >> >> >
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