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Why doesn't Sage do obvious simplifications?

asked 2017-05-15 03:55:47 +0100

cybervigilante gravatar image
 I wanted Sage to simplify 1/2*(cos(x) + sin(x))*e^x - 1/2*(cos(x) - sin(x))*e^x , which easily comes out to e^x*sin(x), but it simply gave me the original term. Why doesn't Sage combine simple terms, or is there a way to make it do that?
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answered 2017-05-15 10:02:19 +0100

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i guess that you are using simplify(expr), where expr is your symbolic expression. but notice that TAB completion like expr.simplify[TAB] reveals 11 simplify flavors. several of them will produce the expected output.

for example,

sage: expr = (1/2*(cos(x) + sin(x))*e^x - 1/2*(cos(x) - sin(x))*e^x)
sage: expr.simplify_full()
e^x*sin(x)

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the top-level simplify has the same effect as expr.simplify(), as you can check in the code (use double question mark then hit enter, simplify??).

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