Re: Full simplify problem
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- Subject: [mg122348] Re: Full simplify problem
- From: Daniel Lichtblau <danl at wolfram.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:37:41 -0400 (EDT)
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On 10/25/2011 05:18 AM, A. Lapraitis wrote: > First of all, thanks to all the people answering! > > The problem is more complicated, indeed, this is just the minimal working > example. However, I still do not understand Mathematica's behaviour. > > 1. I thought that the whole point of Count[#, x, Infinity]& was to > distinguish between Exp[x] and Exp[y+z] in favour of Exp[x]. However, the > same is true for the LeafCount function (it gives 3 and 5 respectively). Why > is not a good complexity function in this case? > > 2. I was trying a different workaround and have noticed a dependence of the > result on the names of the variables: > > In[13]:= Clear["Global`*"] > In[14]:= Assuming[x == d&& d == y + z, FullSimplify[E^x - E^(y + z)]] > Out[14]= E^x - E^(y + z) > In[15]:= Assuming[a == d&& d == b + c, FullSimplify[E^a - E^(b + c)]] > Out[15]= 0 > > Can anyone explain this? http://forums.wolfram.com/mathgroup/archive/2005/Dec/msg00549.html http://forums.wolfram.com/mathgroup/archive/2005/Jan/msg00237.html Daniel Lichtblau Wolfram Research
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- Re: Full simplify problem