Re: Failure to simplify trig functions of simple rational multiples of %pi

Dan Hatton <[email protected]> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:31:37 +0100 (BST)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mathematics.axiom.user
Message-ID <alpine.LNX.2.00.0908141712540.22328@hydrographer.hatton.btinternet.co.uk>
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Bill Page wrote:

> What do you mean by "automatic"? Using 'simiplfy' I get

>                 e1
>   (13)  ------------------
>           2    2    2    2
>         (n  + m  + l )%pi

> Is this what you expect?

Thanks.  That's the sort of thing I was looking for.  I'd tried
simplify(), but was missing the eval() - although now I know what sort
of input simplify() needs, rhs(first()) does just as well.

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Regards,

Dan