Re: Why can't Mathematica tell when something is algebraically zero?
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- Subject: [mg108170] Re: Why can't Mathematica tell when something is algebraically zero?
- From: sashap <pavlyk at gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 06:27:24 -0500 (EST)
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On Mar 8, 5:09 am, mmdanziger <mmdanzi... at gmail.com> wrote: > This isn't the first time that I've encountered something like this in > Mathematica but in my calculations I got a term like this: > > r^2 Sqrt[(r^3 + r + 2)/r] - Sqrt[r^3 (r^3 + r + 2)] > > Which is obviously identically zero. In[73]:= FindInstance[ r^2 Sqrt[(r^3 + r + 2)/r] != Sqrt[r^3 (r^3 + r + 2)], r, 2] Out[73]= {{r -> -37 + (108 I)/5}, {r -> 51/5 - (228 I)/5}}