On Mar 27, 4:55 pm, Ondrej Certik <ond...@certik.cz> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Vinzent Steinberg > > <vinzent.steinb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > This is strange, because just constructing such an expression triggers > > this trivial simplification: > > >>>> (cos(x)**3)**(2/3)*cos(y)**2 - (cos(x)**3)**(5/3)*cos(y)**2 + \ > > ... 3*cos(x)**3*cos(y)**2 + cos(x)**2*cos(y)**2*tan(x)**2 + \ > > ... cos(x)**5*cos(y)**2*tan(x)**4 > > cos(y)**2 + 2*cos(x)**3*cos(y)**2 + cos(x)**2*cos(y)**2*tan(x)**2 + cos > > (x)**5*cos(y)**2*tan(x)**4 > > What is strange on this? > > O.
That it doesn't simplify for Alan: Alan Bromborsky wrote: > Here is a trigsimp problem, although the problem is not really in trigsimp. > Run this code: > from sympy import * > x = Symbol('x') > y = Symbol('y') > s = sin(x) > c = cos(x) > S = sin(y) > C = cos(y) > e = (1-S**2)*(1+c)*(s**2+c**2)+C**2*(1-s**2)*c**3+C**2*(1-c**2)*c**3 > e = expand(e) > print e > print trigsimp(e,deep=True,recursive=True) > and get: > sin(x)**2*cos(x) - sin(x)**2*sin(y)**2*cos(x) + cos(x)**2 + sin(x)**2 - > cos(x)**2*sin(y)**2 - > cos(x)**3*sin(y)**2 - cos(x)**5*cos(y)**2 - sin(x)**2*sin(y)**2 + > 2*cos(x)**3*cos(y)**2 - > cos(x)**3*cos(y)**2*sin(x)**2 + cos(x)**3 > (cos(x)**3)**(2/3)*cos(y)**2 - (cos(x)**3)**(5/3)*cos(y)**2 + > 3*cos(x)**3*cos(y)**2 + > cos(x)**2*cos(y)**2*tan(x)**2 + cos(x)**5*cos(y)**2*tan(x)**4 > The problem is expressions of the form: (cos(x)**3)**(5/3) > which probably prevent trigsimp from further simplification. Is their > any simple way to insure3 > that (cos(x)**3)**(5/3) would be replaced by cos(x)**5! Vinzent --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy-patches" group. To post to this group, send email to sympy-patches@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sympy-patches+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy-patches?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---