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Replacing spurious Abs

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Subject: [mg130847] Replacing spurious Abs
From: carlos.felippa%colorado.edu at gtempaccount.com
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 00:02:12 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi,

Sometimes I get Abs[exp] from Simplify or Integrate, when it should be simply exp.
Is there a simple way to get rid of the Abs, when exp may be an arbitrarily
complex expression?  Something like /.Abs[#]->#?  Thanks.

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