Simplify Anomaly
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- Subject: [mg25648] Simplify Anomaly
- From: "Ersek, Ted R" <ErsekTR at navair.navy.mil>
- Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 02:52:22 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
The anomaly below (using Version 4) was recently brought to my attention by Dave Park in a slightly different context. --------- In[1]:= Simplify[ a^2/Sqrt[a^2(a^2 + b^2)], a>0 && Element[b,Reals] ] Out[1]= a^2/Sqrt[a^2(a^2 + b^2)] In[2]:= Simplify[ a^2/Sqrt[a^2(a^2 + b^2)], a>0 && Element[b,Reals], ComplexityFunction->LeafCount ] Out[2]= a/Sqrt[a^2 + b^2] The documentation for ComplexityFunction says: "With the default setting ComplexityFunction->Automatic, forms are ranked primarily according to their LeafCount, with corrections to treat integers with more digits as more complex." Then why isn't the simpler form returned using the default setting (ComplexityFunction->Automatic)? I get the same result using FullSimplify. -------------------- Regards, Ted Ersek Mathematica tips, tricks have moved to http://www.verbeia.com/mathematica/tips/Tricks.html