Does rootscontract (check doc for options) or radcan help?
If you give us examples, we might be able to help more.
-s
On Sep 9, 2013 3:16 AM, "Ralf Stephan" <gtrwst9 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks. The reason I'm asking is that I work with product expressions
> having lots of square roots to the nth power, and they would simplify
> nicely if only I could say: combine the bases, please. Explicitly
> specifying substitutions for that would be tedious and error-prone.
>
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> ralf
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