Re: Simplifying things
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- Subject: [mg26107] Re: Simplifying things
- From: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 01:55:53 -0500 (EST)
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Simplify takes assumptions and has options:
Simplify[Sqrt[a^2], a > 0]
a
It is not always easy, or even possible, to automatically get the desired
forms but you can find the methods available by looking up Simplify and
FullSimpify in the Help Browser.
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Allan
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<djago at my-deja.com> wrote in message news:8vfs3v$jkq at smc.vnet.net...
> Hi!
> I need to simplify looooong equations, but don't know how to get rid of
> those terms like:
>
> Sqrt[a^2]
>
> when a is a real positive variable... How can I tell Mathematica 3 to
> simplify this?
>
> Thanks!
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