Re: Stacked fractions
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg120116] Re: Stacked fractions
- From: DrMajorBob <btreat1 at austin.rr.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 04:56:38 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <201107071134.HAA15441@smc.vnet.net>
- Reply-to: drmajorbob at yahoo.com
((A/B) - C)/D // Simplify (A - B C)/(B D) Bobby On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 06:34:21 -0500, paulvonhippel at yahoo <paulvonhippel at yahoo.com> wrote: > Another question, along the same lines. Some of the solutions > Mathematica gives me include compound fractions of the form ((A/B)-C)/ > D. Again it seems to me most authors would rewrite this as a simpler > fraction -- can I get Mathematica to do the same? > > Where these questions are coming from: Mathematica is now compatible > with Word's equation editor, so it's become more desirable for > Mathematica's output to look close to what's conventional in a paper. > -- DrMajorBob at yahoo.com
- References:
- Stacked fractions
- From: paulvonhippel at yahoo <paulvonhippel@yahoo.com>
- Stacked fractions