simplification

• Subject: simplification
• From: leon.magiera at wp.pl
• Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 09:49:52 +0100

Hi List

Given

    assume( a>0, b>0 )$

    sqrt(a^2 - 2*a*b + b^2) + sqrt(a^2 - 2*a*b+b^2);

How to simplify the above expression to the form

     a+b+abs(a-b)

Thanks in advance
Leon

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