Re: Re: Simplifying algebraic expressions
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- Subject: [mg66903] Re: [mg66877] Re: Simplifying algebraic expressions
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 03:25:35 -0400 (EDT)
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I think the original poster's intention was to ask how to make
Mathematica make the following simplifications:
(-1)^(2 x + 3 y)
((-1)^(2x)) * ((-1)^(3y))
(((-1)^2)^x) * ((-1)^(3y))
(1^x) * (-1)^(3y)
1 * (-1)^(3y)
(-1)^(3y)
Of course this is valid only in special circumstances, even when x and y
are real and positive.
Bill Rowe wrote:
> On 6/1/06 at 6:54 AM, aroy at cs.bc.edu (Amitabha Roy) wrote:
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>> I would like Mathematica to be able to take an expression, say,
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>> (-1)^{2 x + 3 y} and be able to simplify to (-1)^y.
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>> Is there a way one can do this ?
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> I wonder if you really meant
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> (-1)^{2 x + 3 y}
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> instead of
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> (-1)^(2 x + 3 y)
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> in any case, the only way to simplify the 2 x + 3 y part to y would be to define x as -y. That is
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> (-1)^(2 x + 3 y)/.x->-y
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> will return (-1)^y
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> Or perhaps you wanted Mathematica to return (-1)^z where z is defined to be 2 x + 3 y? If so
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> (-1)^(2 x + 3 y) /. (-1)^(n_) :> (-1)^z
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> will return (-1)^z
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