[Maxima] How to simplifiy a*sin(x)+b*cos(x)

[Richard Fateman]

try expand(trigsimp(trigexpand(    sqrt(b^2+a^2)*sin(x+atan(b/a))  )));
 
but that is in the reverse direction.  Your notion of simplification is more
like complification.
 


 

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