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Re: Stacked fractions

From	DrMajorBob <btreat1@austin.rr.com>
Newsgroups	comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica
Subject	Re: Stacked fractions
Date	2011-07-08 09:10 +0000
Organization	Steven M. Christensen and Associates, Inc and MathTensor, Inc.
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((A/B) - C)/D // Simplify

(A - B C)/(B D)

Bobby

On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 06:34:21 -0500, paulvonhippel at yahoo  
<paulvonhippel@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Another question, along the same lines. Some of the solutions
> Mathematica gives me include compound fractions of the form ((A/B)-C)/
> D. Again it seems to me most authors would rewrite this as a simpler
> fraction -- can I get Mathematica to do the same?
>
> Where these questions are coming from: Mathematica is now compatible
> with Word's equation editor, so it's become more desirable for
> Mathematica's output to look close to what's conventional in a paper.
>


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