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Re: Simplify

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• Subject: [mg127664] Re: Simplify
• From: Bob Hanlon <hanlonr357 at gmail.com>
• Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 04:20:21 -0400 (EDT)
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You misspelled Cos as Cox.


Bob Hanlon


On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 3:16 AM, news
<news at newsfe03.iad.highwinds-media.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Simplify must result:
>
> Simplify[(1 + Sin[x] - Cos[x])/(1 + Sin[x] + Cos[x]) == Tan[x/2]]
> True
>
> but why instead it results:
>
> Simplify[(1 + Sin[x] - Cos[x]) / (1 + Sin[x] + Cox[x]) ==  Tan[x/2]]
>
> ((Cos[x] - Cox[x])*Tan[x/2]) / (1 + Cox[x] + Sin[x]) == 0
>
> Thanks.
>
> Max.
>

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