simplify

From	William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca>
Newsgroups	comp.soft-sys.math.maple
Subject	simplify
Date	2017-08-09 21:57 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<omg0fv$u3k$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

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Having just graduated from Maple 9.5 to Maple 2016.2 I am flummoxed by
the simplify command. My expression includes square roots, and all I get
from simplify is "`simplify/sqrt/product` uses a 2nd argument, n, which
is missing" which is of no help at all. One would think it would use the
old simplfy procedure (eg assuming positivee argument and positive
result by default, or something like that). 
Looking at the help page and putting in 
simplify(%,assume=positive) just give the same response.
If simplify is simply going to throw up its hands in despair every time
it runs across something slightly out of the ordinary, it makes it
pretty useless.

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simplify William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2017-08-09 21:57 +0000
  Re: simplify "G. A. Edgar" <edgar@math.ohio-state.edu.invalid> - 2017-08-11 04:17 -0600
    Re: simplify William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2017-08-11 10:48 +0000
      Re: simplify "G. A. Edgar" <edgar@math.ohio-state.edu.invalid> - 2017-08-15 06:36 -0600
        Re: simplify William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2017-08-15 14:42 +0000
          Re: simplify jfh <john.harper@vuw.ac.nz> - 2017-08-16 19:30 -0700
          Re: simplify Solved William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2017-08-18 14:55 +0000

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