[sympy] Re: how to combine exponents? (x**a)**b => x**(a*b)

2010-06-24 Thread Kevin Hunter
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[sympy] Re: how to combine exponents? (x**a)**b => x**(a*b)

2010-06-24 Thread Kevin Hunter
Mathematically speaking, another way to think about it is this: sqrt(x**2) != x (same reasoning, try x < 0) A little more generically: sqrt(x**2) == norm(x) ("2 norm of x") You may (not) be interested in this wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm_(mathematics) -- You received