in Mathematica

eq= a==a-x
Simplify[eq]

gives what is expected, which is

x==0

in Maple

eq:=a=a-x;
simplify(eq)

returns back a=a-x. So it did not do anything.

Why Maple does not do such simplification automatically as
Mathematica? Using option "size" does not help

eq:=a=a-x;
simplify(eq,size)

Only way I found in Maple is to manually convert
the equation to put everything on one side, like this

eq:=a=a-x;
simplify( lhs(eq)-rhs(eq) = 0 );

x=0

What is the logic that makes Maple not simplify a=a-x
to x=0 automatically? I do not see it myself.

Does your CAS simplify this automatically also?

--Nasser

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"Nasser M. Abbasi" schrieb:

in Mathematica

eq= a==a-x
Simplify[eq]

gives what is expected, which is

x==0

in Maple

eq:=a=a-x;
simplify(eq)

returns back a=a-x. So it did not do anything.

Why Maple does not do such simplification automatically as
Mathematica? Using option "size" does not help

eq:=a=a-x;
simplify(eq,size)

Only way I found in Maple is to manually convert
the equation to put everything on one side, like this

eq:=a=a-x;
simplify( lhs(eq)-rhs(eq) = 0 );

x=0

What is the logic that makes Maple not simplify a=a-x
to x=0 automatically? I do not see it myself.

Does your CAS simplify this automatically also?

There is no explicit simplification command in Derive 6.10, only a simplification button, and clicking this button doesn't change your
equation:

a = a - x
a = a - x

For an explicit simplification command one may define a dummy
procedure, however, which then indeed simplifies you equation:

eval(t) := t

eval(a = a - x)
x = 0

the FACTOR and EXAND commands in Derive also work here:

FACTOR(a = a - x)
x = 0

EXPAND(a = a - x)
x = 0

Perhaps Maple operates in a similar way.

Martin.

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On 10/11/2023 10:26 AM, [email protected] wrote:

Perhaps Maple operates in a similar way.

Martin.

May be. I've been using Maple for long time, and I just
noticed this only now, when I was looking at some
result and noticed

ln(x) = ln(x) + .... etc...

Even thought I did simplify on the equation before.

So I had to change all my code which simplifies
equations, by first rewriting the equation as
lhs(eq)-rhs(eq)=0 and only then call simplify.

I think Mathematica's way is more natural. But may be
there is a good reason why Maple does not simplify it,
and that is why I asked.

btw, sympy also does it like Mathematica:

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python

Python 3.11.3 (main, Apr 5 2023, 15:52:25) [GCC 12.2.1 20230201] on linux

from sympy import *
a,x = symbols('a x')
eq=Eq(a,a-x)
eq

Eq(a, a - x)

simplify(eq)

Eq(x, 0)

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--Nasser

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