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Re: Incompletely simplified Square root.

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  • Subject: [mg121080] Re: Incompletely simplified Square root.
  • From: "Kevin J. McCann" <Kevin.McCann at umbc.edu>
  • Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 05:24:59 -0400 (EDT)
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  • References: <j35add$od8$1@smc.vnet.net>

Looks like it has something to do with PolynomialForm. I am not sure 
what that is; it is not in the Documentation. If you leave it out, all 
works as hoped (?).

Kevin

On 8/25/2011 7:07 AM, paulvonhippel at yahoo wrote:
> Can someone tell me why the following input doesn't produce an output
> of 0.68....?
> Why is the output under the radical? Thanks!
>
> In[574]:= Sqrt[\!\(\*
> TagBox[
> FractionBox["926", "2025"],
> PolynomialForm]\)] // N
>
> Out[574]= Sqrt[\!\(\*
> TagBox["0.45728395061728394`",
> PolynomialForm]\)]
>




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