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JohnDoe1-Visitor
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April 18, 2012
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Polynomial Factorization and Simplification

  • April 18, 2012
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Dear Mathcad fans,

I would like to know which function in Mathcad allows for polynomial factorization and simplification? Please see the attached example. I put a function and a simplified form of it (manually calculated). How to achieve that result with Mathcad?

Best answer by RichardJ

The symbolic processor does not llke degrees.

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AndyWesterman12-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
April 18, 2012

The Symbolic engine will do this for you, sometimes you will need to add additional commands (also available on the symbolic toolbar.

Regards

Andy

JohnDoe1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
April 18, 2012

No you used the manually calculated result.

Try to use the symbolic evaluation with the original function (see attached file).

AndyWesterman12-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
April 18, 2012

Oh dear I seem to be sleeping...

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Not quite what you want but Mathcad seem quite happy that it has simplified the form enough.

difficult for Mathcad to know that sin(60deg) should be displayed as (square root 2)/4; ... 61degrees wouldn't simplify in the same way.

regards

Andy

RichardJ19-TanzaniteAnswer
19-Tanzanite
April 18, 2012

The symbolic processor does not llke degrees.

JohnDoe1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
April 19, 2012

Thanks guys. The solution of Richard is perfect.

@Mona Zeftel: please correct this in next releases so that "simplify" gives directly the desired solution without workarounds. And please add nH (nano Henry = 10^-9 Henry) to the list of units.

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