#3520: inconsistency in simplify_radical
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   Reporter:  wdj        |          Owner:  gfurnish  
       Type:  defect     |         Status:  new       
   Priority:  major      |      Milestone:  sage-4.7.2
  Component:  symbolics  |       Keywords:            
Work_issues:             |       Upstream:  N/A       
   Reviewer:             |         Author:            
     Merged:             |   Dependencies:            
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Comment(by kcrisman):

 What is really going on here is that `simplify_radical` uses `radcan`
 under the hood, which treats things as symbolic expressions, not
 functions, and just chooses a branch - consistently, but arbitrarily.  At
 least I think that is what is here.  See
 [http://www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/2011/026097.html the Maxima
 list thread starting here].

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