Re: [sage-support] Re: common devisor

2010-09-28 Thread Johannes
I'm wondering about on more little thing: I have an expression like this: (-bc)/((1/b -1) bc -1) + c /((1/b -1) bc -1) + (-1)/((1/b -1) bc -1) -1 which could be simplified by hand to (-2(bc +1)/(c-bc -1) why do i get this complex expression, evne if I call simplify on it? maybe this question is rel

Re: [sage-support] Re: common devisor

2010-09-27 Thread Johannes
I tried both attempts, but unfortunately both fail: the first one (using the denominator function) leads to this error: /TypeError: lcm function not defined for elements of the base ring/ Does this happen, because i have variables in my term? In this case i would be enough to get a * b as result of

Re: [sage-support] Re: common devisor

2010-09-27 Thread Johannes
thnx, luis, thats nearly what I'm looking for, but i missed something in my first post. in my fractions i work with some variable (with are all integer, that's why I missed this in the beginning) I'd like to have something like this: a,b = var('a,b') v = vector([2/a, 1/ab]) and with the results: v