CAS not always working with trigonometric formulas ?
Subject: CAS not always working with trigonometric formulas ?
From: Barton Willis
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 17:05:41 -0500
-----thomas x wrote: -----
> For instance, it is not able to simplify
> (sqrt(2)+sqrt(6-4*sqrt(2)))/2 into 1.
(%i1) load("sqdnst")$
(%i2) (sqrt(2)+sqrt(6-4*sqrt(2)))/2;
(%o2) (sqrt(2)+sqrt(6-4*sqrt(2)))/2
(%i3) SQRTDENEST(%);
(%o3) 1
Barton