Re: TraditionForm Appears to be Inconsistent
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- Subject: [mg99596] Re: TraditionForm Appears to be Inconsistent
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 00:20:33 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Uni Leipzig
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- Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
Hi, TraditionalForm[HoldForm[Cos[x] == Sin[x + \[Pi]/2]]] may help. Regards Jens uk.org.microserf at googlemail.com wrote: > Hi > > The Mathematica 7 documentation says that > > TraditionalForm[Exp[I \[Theta]] == Cos[\[Theta]] + I Sin[\[Theta]]] > > will display the expression in traditional form, and indeed it does. > However, the following evaluates the expression and then displays True > in traditional form: > > TraditionalForm[Cos[x] == Sin[x + \[Pi]/2]] > > Why is TraditionalForm behaving differently in these two apparently > identical situations, and how can I get Mathematica to display this > trigonometric identity in traditional form? > > Thanks in advance > > Chris >