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Re: Simplification ?

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  • Subject: [mg38115] Re: Simplification ?
  • From: "Steven Shippee" <slshippee at attbi.com>
  • Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 04:32:51 -0500 (EST)
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Regarding:

"Olivier Durussel" <olivier.durussel at epfl.ch> wrote in message
news:as5pn8$ngo$1 at smc.vnet.net...
Hi, Is there a way to force Mathematica to simplify the terms like Sqrt[x^2]
to give  x ???  How about PowerExpand, which expands all powers of products
and powers.

How about PowerExpand which expands all powers of products and powers.  For
example,

PowerExpand[Sqrt[x^2]] will == x.

Steven Shippee
mailto:shippee at jcs.mil



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