I'm sure there's been no end of jokes about you sending each other French letters.
When my oldest sister was doing final year high school French and Dad travelled to France, he sent her six foolscap pages hand-written in French... we used to refer to when he sent his daughter a French letter. He had an impressive memory.
Clifford Heath
Does there exist a math program that can take as input:
{12.5m*TANH((V(N_1,0)-(((10mA+15mA)/2)*10*ATANH(((10mA-15mA)/2)/((10mA+15mA)/2))))/10/((10mA+15mA)/2))+((10mA-15mA)/2)}
and reduce it, combining terms, eliminating parentheses, etc, where possible, but leaving variables, such as V(N_1,0) ??
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Qalculate can do some of that - it knows about units and can be asked to simplify:
80% of that equation reduces to a single constant.
+15mA)/2))))/10/((10mA+15mA)/2))+((10mA-15mA)/2)}
If you're into buying stuff, Mathcad with the symbolic toolbox is very nice. Mathcad uses Maple, as does just about any for-pay mathematical program that includes symbolic manipulation.
Maxima is kind of the gold standard for open-source symbolic simplification (I think it's where Maple comes from), but it's text based, doesn't know how to reduce units (unless you do extensive coaching, I suppose), and can hang up on trig problems. Of course, I've also just described Maple...
Whether Maxima or Maple is the underlying engine, you'll often find that the "obvious" simplification you're looking for is just not coming out. In that case, you can often get a long way by making a guess, and then asking
-VERY OFTEN, when Maxima can't reduce something to my taste, it'll still correctly cough up 0 when I do the above (and when I've gotten my reduction right).
Hello Jim,
Quite easy with (wx)maxima with ratsimp();
ratsimp(12.5*TANH((V(N_1,0)-(((10+15)/2)*10*ATANH(((10-15)/2)/((10+15)/2))))/10/((10+15)/2))+((10-15)/2));
-->
(25*TANH((V(N_1,0)-125*ATANH(-1/5))/125)-5)/2
I'm too lazy now ... BTW you have been entering the MIT ... whare have you been there ???
Hum ... take it easy Jim i'm kidding you.
Habib.
PS : same way with MathCAD.
Super! I downloaded the Maxima installer and a "book" about an hour ago.
Long, long ago ;-) 1958-1962
...Jim Thompson
...and in a galaxy far, far away.
oh i see ! An MIT veteran ! BTW i never understand what is the meaning of "Mens et Manus" 'cause it's a mix with mens (English) and manus (Latin) stand for body or hand.
I come from the one which the moto is "Docet omnes ubique" and i proud of this.
Habib.
Mens et Manus == Mind and Hand
It teaches everyone everywhere
You should be proud...
...Jim Thompson
On Wed, 02 Dec 2015 21:35:10 +0100, Habib Bouaziz-Viallet Gave us:
just google it, dummy.
Ah ok mens ! as mens sana in corpore sano. Apologies.
And sure i am ! we need it most of all on these dark days in France, saying "Docete omnes ubique"
And you're a dummy and half. When i was 11 years old i've learn some latin in French school, i forgot the meaning of mens word in Latin.
My English is unfortunately not so fluent i could express my pity on you ... stupid.
H.
Habib, Just ignore DecadentLoser... he's just that, a total loser... and ignorant to boot.
I'm of the (very) old school... I had three years of Latin in High School and one year of French... my wife-to-be and I communicated in French when I was at MIT and she was still in West Virginia... to thwart her mother reading our love letters ;-) ...Jim Thompson
:-) very smart indeed writing French with one's love !
Habib.
Our 56th anniversary on March 31. Our teenage marriage wasn't supposed to last (I was 20, she was 18 ;-) ...Jim Thompson
FWIW, I'd treat the units as variables (e.g. 125mA -> 125*mA), which ratsimp will cancel or factor out where possible.
Also, if you convert tanh() and atanh() to lower-case, you may be able to get some mileage out of trigsimp/trigexpand/trigreduce.
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"Zut, alors! Je t'aime, mon amour!"
Now, was that so difficult? ;)
joe
O.T.: All you've got to blame is your government...
jor
On Wed, 02 Dec 2015 22:01:44 +0100, Habib Bouaziz-Viallet Gave us:
I did not say a goddamned thing about what you may or may have not studied. Even IF you had YEARS of Latin study, when you encounter an unknown, you can GOOGLE it and examine the result... DUMMY!
So YOU are the putz who needs pity, asshole.
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