simplification of radicals



On 7/25/08, Barton Willis <willisb at unk.edu> wrote:

>  A few versions ago, I think the following simplified to zero; now
>  it doesn't:
>
>   (%i6) sqrt(3) * sqrt(17) - sqrt(51);
>   (%o6) sqrt(3) sqrt(17) - sqrt(51)

Are you sure about that? I tried several past versions on Windows & Linux
and got the same nonzero result shown above.

best

Robert Dodier