On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 4:37 AM, Minh Nguyen <nguyenmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Dylan, > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 4:32 AM, drupel <dylanru...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi all: >> I am using Sage Version 3.4, Release Date: 2009-03-11. I asked Sage >> to simplify the following expression: >> -q^(5/2)*(q^2*x2^4 + q*x2^2) + q^(9/2)*x2^4 + q^(3/2)*(q^2 + 1) >> *x2^2 + sqrt(q) >> by calling the simplify command: >> simplify(-q^(5/2)*(q^2*x2^4 + q*x2^2) + q^(9/2)*x2^4 + q^(3/2)* >> (q^2 + 1)*x2^2 + sqrt(q)) >> but the output was exactly the same as what I put in. In my code >> ahead of this I have >> R=PolynomialRing(ZZ,'q') >> var('q') >> Any suggestions would be much appreciated. > > Try this:
Should be this [mv...@sage ~]$ sage ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Sage Version 3.4.1, Release Date: 2009-04-21 | | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- sage: q, x2 = var("q, x2") sage: simplify(expand(-q^(5/2)*(q^2*x2^4 + q*x2^2) + q^(9/2)*x2^4 + q^(3/2)*(q^2 + 1)*x2^2 + sqrt(q))) q^(3/2)*x2^2 + sqrt(q) Sorry about the noise. -- Regards Minh Van Nguyen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---