On 10/2/11 2:22 AM, Pere Castellv? wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> is there a way to obtain 40*sqrt(2) in this computation?
>
> (%i3) 20*sqrt(2)+20*sqrt(2);
> (%o3) 5*2^(7/2)
>
Hmm. It seems that you can't. Even 40*sqrt(2) is simplified to 5*2^(7/2).
I think this is due to some work done a while a go to fix some other
issues where maxima was not simplifying expressions like this, so maxima
now factors the numbers and puts the factors into the square root.
Ray