On 11/05/2014 08:34 AM, kcrisman wrote:
>
> Just to clarify, current behavior is
>
> sage: a = sqrt(x^2)
> sage: a.simplify_radical()
> x
Yeah, previously, simplify_radical() was silently setting the domain to
'real', calling radcan(), and then setting the domain back to 'complex'.
The round t
> In http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/14630, I have a patch that adds a
> simplify_real() method to symbolic expressions. Pretty much the only
> thing it does is simplify,
>
> sqrt(x^2) -> abs(x)
>
> In the past, you could obtain this with simplify_radical(), even though
> the variable `x`
