[Maxima] RE : Re: simplification of radicals

[Razafy Paul]

Hi 

  radcan will simplify them to zero I think!
   
  Don't we have eval or evalf like in Maple?
   
  Regards
   
  Paul RAZAFIMANDIMBY
   
  
Barton Willis <willisb at unk.edu> a écrit :
  
-----"Robert Dodier" wrote: -----


>On 7/25/08, Barton Willis wrote:
>
>> A few versions ago, I think the following simplified to zero; now
>> it doesn't:
>>
>> (%i6) sqrt(3) * sqrt(17) - sqrt(51);
>> (%o6) sqrt(3) sqrt(17) - sqrt(51)
>
>Are you sure about that? I tried several past versions on Windows & Linux
>and got the same nonzero result shown above.

No, I'm not. Macsyma doesn't simplify sqrt(3) * sqrt(17) - sqrt(51) to
zero;
I'd guess Maxima never did either.

Barton
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