#8497: bug in simplify_radical
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Reporter: zimmerma | Owner: burcin
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-4.7.2
Component: calculus | Keywords: simplify, radical, sqrt
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 going on here. See
[http://www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/2011/026097.html the Maxima
list thread starting here].
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