Re: Eliminating Annoying Minus Signs
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- Subject: [mg58768] Re: [mg58756] Eliminating Annoying Minus Signs
- From: Bob Hanlon <hanlonr at cox.net>
- Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 13:03:13 -0400 (EDT)
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test={-((2*x)/(-1+z)),-((2*y)/(-1+z)),-1};
FullSimplify[test,ComplexityFunction:>(Count[{#},_Times[_Negative,__],?]&)]
{(2*x)/(1 - z), (2*y)/(1 - z), -1}
However, this will likely be undone by any subsequent use of simplification
with the default ComplexityFunction
%//Simplify
{-((2*x)/(z - 1)), -((2*y)/(z - 1)), -1}
Bob Hanlon
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> From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> Date: 2005/07/17 Sun AM 03:04:06 EDT
> Subject: [mg58768] [mg58756] Eliminating Annoying Minus Signs
>
> Here is an expression that has annoying minus signs in it.
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> test = {-((2*x)/(-1 + z)), -((2*y)/(-1 + z)), -1};
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> We can get rid of them with the following operation.
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> MapAt[Minus, test, {{1, 1}, {1, 3, 1}, {2, 1}, {2, 3, 1}}]
> {(2*x)/(1 - z), (2*y)/(1 - z), -1}
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> But it involves ferreting out the two positions at which we want to change
signs and so is a little tedious and error prone.
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> Does someone have a simpler method for simplifying such expressions,
which occur quite often with Mathematica?
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> David Park
> djmp at earthlink.net
> http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/
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