Re: Stacked fractions
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- Subject: [mg120086] Re: Stacked fractions
- From: paulvonhippel at yahoo <paulvonhippel at yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 04:51:12 -0400 (EDT)
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Thanks to two private messages for suggesting the Simplify function.
Simplify does work for the simple problem I posed, but not for the
more complicated problem I was thinking about.
The problem I proposed is solved by Simplify:
((A/B) - C)/D // Simplify
(A - B C)/(B D)
But my real problem doesn't solve as easily,
(-1 - (2 Gamma[n/2]^2)/Gamma[1/2 (-1 + n)]^2)/n
even if assumptions are imposed:
FullSimplify[%, {n >= 2, n \[Element] Integers}]
Many thanks for any suggestions.