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Re: simplify Arg[E^(I x)]?

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• Subject: [mg125768] Re: simplify Arg[E^(I x)]?
• From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
• Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 03:39:46 -0400 (EDT)
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• Reply-to: murray at math.umass.edu

First, I presume you just made a typo in your message -- it should be 
FullSimplify, with an upper-case S, of course.

Second, one reason the expression doesn't simplify to x is that such a 
result would be wrong! For example:

   Arg[Exp[(2 Pi + Pi/2) I]]

has value Pi/2 rather than 2 Pi + Pi/2.

On 3/31/12 4:42 AM, Neal Becker wrote:
> Why doesn't this simplify?
>
> Fullsimplify[Arg[E^(I x)], x \[Element] Reals]
>
> I expect to get 'x'.
>
> Is there some way I can get this to simplify?
>

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