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Re: Algebraic reduction

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  • Subject: [mg108410] Re: Algebraic reduction
  • From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
  • Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:37:30 -0500 (EST)

It depends on what form you want for the quotients.  Two ways are:


   Table[Expand[Factor[(x^n - 1)/(x - 1)]], {n, 1, 10}]
   Table[Factor[(x^n - 1)/(x - 1)], {n, 1, 10}]

On 3/16/2010 5:44 AM, Artur wrote:
> Dear Mathematica Gurus.
> Who know how force simplification of polynomials (x^n - 1)/(x - 1)] by
> Mathematica
> Table[FullSimplify[(x^n - 1)/(x - 1)], {n, 1, 10}]
> Above eliminate denominator only in first 5 n
> Any idea ?
> Best wishes
> Artur
>

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