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When is Exp[z]==Exp[w]??

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  • Subject: [mg113621] When is Exp[z]==Exp[w]??
  • From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
  • Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 05:10:49 -0500 (EST)
  • Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
  • Reply-to: murray at math.umass.edu

Mathematica 7.0.1 gives (as InputForm of the result):

   Reduce[Exp[z]==Exp[w],{z,w}]
Element[C[1], Integers] && E^z != 0 && w == (2*I)*Pi*C[1] + Log[E^z]

How can Mathematica be forced to simplify this to what is the fact, 
namely, the following?

   Element[C[1], Integers]&& w == (2*I)*Pi*C[1] + z

(At the very least, certainly the expression E^z != 0 is redundant.)

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