On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Paul Royik <distantjob...@gmail.com> wrote: > I know this way, but is there any way to change this after symbol creation?
The right way in my opinion is to just create a symbol with no assumptions and then use refine(). As I wrote below, it doesn't yet work for this case, but it will in the future. If you have time, we would appreciate any help with this. Ondrej > > On Thursday, December 4, 2014 6:29:27 PM UTC+2, Ondřej Čertík wrote: >> >> On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Paul Royik <distan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Suppose that I have an expression >> > >> > e = x**2+sqrt(a**2*b**2) >> > What is the best way to assign to expression assumption that all >> > variables >> > are Positive, so that equivalent of e is x**2+ab? >> >> It should be done like this: >> >> In [11]: refine(e, Q.positive(a) & Q.positive(b)) >> Out[11]: >> _______ >> 2 ╱ 2 2 >> x + ╲╱ a ⋅b >> >> >> But unfortunately that doesn't work. So the only other way is the old >> way like this: >> >> In [12]: a = Symbol("a", positive=True) >> >> In [13]: b = Symbol("b", positive=True) >> >> In [14]: x**2+sqrt(a**2*b**2) >> Out[14]: >> 2 >> a⋅b + x >> >> >> Ondrej > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/0057f9b0-377e-4409-aee8-d8284e1e0f06%40googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CADDwiVAHer1goUWwf3o5Hwh6N6kC1V4yrLFTxmW3GFh6_i2VTA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.