OK.  I'm not sure what your concern is then.  If it's valid, then make
powsimp do it.

The other two fall into the category of powdenest(force=True).

Aaron Meurer

On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 5:00 AM, Chris Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The original expression with vanilla symbols.  I know Mul.flatten
>> doesn't combine this one, but we need to double check things if
>> a.base*a == a.base**(3/2) is not really valid for all x and y.  But I
>> rather suspect that it is valid.
>
> x**3*y*sqrt(x*sqrt(x*y)) is always (x*sqrt(x*y))**(5/2) but it is not
> always `(x**(3/2)*y**(1/2))**(5/2)` nor `x**(15/4)*y**(5/4)`. Neither
> sympy (except for factor) nor wolfram is making the mistake for
> vanilla symbols.
>
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