Re: Re: Simplify Oddity
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- Subject: [mg59426] Re: [mg59407] Re: Simplify Oddity
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akozlowski at gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 03:30:53 -0400 (EDT)
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On 8 Aug 2005, at 12:17, albert wrote:
> In[7]:= Assuming[{g != 0, r != 0, Element[k,Integers]},Simplify[f1/
> f2]]
>
> Out[7]= 1
>
You do not really need the assumptions g!=0 and r!=0.
Assuming[{ Element[k,Integers]},Simplify[f1/f2]]
1
This seems quite reasonable to me since Mathematica will always evaluate
x/x
1
without regard to whether x is 0 or not 1.
Andrzej Kozlowski
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