Re: Strange behavior of Simplify
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- Subject: [mg40187] Re: Strange behavior of Simplify
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 14:47:30 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi, Simplify[Exp[2*n^2*(Log[1 + t] - Log[1 - t])], ComplexityFunction -> Depth] does it. Regards Jens Selwyn Hollis wrote: > > I've just run across the following strange behavior of Simplify. > (Using Mathematica 4.1.5, Mac OS X). > > These first two commands work as expected: > > Simplify[Exp[2*n*(Log[1 + t] - Log[1 - t])]] > > (1 - t)^(-2*n) (1 + t)^(2*n) > > Simplify[Exp[n^2*(Log[1 + t] - Log[1 - t])]] > > (1 - t)^(-n^2) (1 + t)^(n^2) > > But Simplify refuses to do anything with this: > > Simplify[Exp[2*n^2*(Log[1 + t] - Log[1 - t])]] > > Exp[2*n^2*(Log[1 + t] - Log[1 - t])] > > Can anyone shed some light here? By the way, FullSimplify does the > same thing. > > ----- > Selwyn Hollis > http://www.math.armstrong.edu/faculty/hollis