Re: Making approximation to symplify lengthy expressions

2007-12-11 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Dec 11, 2007 7:06 PM, Kirill Smelkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Suresh, > > On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 09:47:58AM -0800, Suresh Jeevanandam wrote: > > > > Dear all, > > > > Let's say I have an expression: > > 1/(a+b) > > > > I want to be able to simplify this to 1/a if we know that a is much,

Re: Making approximation to symplify lengthy expressions

2007-12-11 Thread Kirill Smelkov
Suresh, On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 09:47:58AM -0800, Suresh Jeevanandam wrote: > > Dear all, > > Let's say I have an expression: > 1/(a+b) > > I want to be able to simplify this to 1/a if we know that a is much, > much greater than b. Is there a way to achieve this already in sympy. > If not, I t

Re: Making approximation to symplify lengthy expressions

2007-12-11 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Dec 11, 2007 7:08 PM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Suresh, > > > Dear all, > > > > Let's say I have an expression: > > 1/(a+b) > > > > I want to be able to simplify this to 1/a if we know that a is much, > > much greater than b. Is there a way to achieve this already in sympy

Re: Making approximation to symplify lengthy expressions

2007-12-11 Thread Ondrej Certik
Dear Suresh, > Dear all, > > Let's say I have an expression: > 1/(a+b) > > I want to be able to simplify this to 1/a if we know that a is much, > much greater than b. Is there a way to achieve this already in sympy. > If not, I think this would be a nice feature for engineering people > who would

Making approximation to symplify lengthy expressions

2007-12-11 Thread Suresh Jeevanandam
Dear all, Let's say I have an expression: 1/(a+b) I want to be able to simplify this to 1/a if we know that a is much, much greater than b. Is there a way to achieve this already in sympy. If not, I think this would be a nice feature for engineering people who would always be making some approxi