Subject: Simplification of log and exp expressions
From: Richard Fateman
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 20:44:30 -0700
If you are using "." rather than "*" you will
not get much simplification. "." is used as
a "non-commutative" multiplication with (I think)
no relation to log or exp.
There are some flags that affect logs and exponentials.
logsimp is one of them that might help you.
Robert Dodier wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I want to convert expressions such as
>exp(5 .a).exp(2 .a).exp(z.a) to exp((7+z).a),
>but Maxima (5.9.0) doesn't seem to do that.
>I've tried some functions (radcan, simplify,
>
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