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endless loop in TrigExpand?

  • To: mathgroup at yoda.ncsa.uiuc.edu
  • Subject: endless loop in TrigExpand?
  • From: fischer at slothrop.math.ufl.edu
  • Date: Tue, 6 Jun 89 11:18:50 -0400
  • Reply-to: jde at mathlab.math.ufl.edu

Please reply to jde at mathlab.math.ufl.edu (James D English).

Problem:  When, using Mathematica, the following command is entered:
 
         TrigExpand[ Cos[t1] Sin[t2] + Cos[t2] Sin[t1]]

the following, expected result is displayed (almost immediately) :

         Sin[t1 + t2]

However, a problem arises when the following is entered:

         TrigExpand[Cos[t1] Sin[t2] Sin[t3] + Cos[t2] Sin[t1] Sin[t3]]

rather than the expected Sin[t1 +t2] Sin[t3], the program goes into
what appears to be an endless loop.
 
Nor does it work when the function is entered in the following form:

	 TrigExpand[(Cos[t1] Sin[t2] + Cos[t2] Sin[t1])Sin[t3]] 



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