Yeah, I forgot about that (2nd line) because it wasn't clear to me what it was supposed to be the alternate form *of*. (Surely not the 1st line, I thought.) --Dan P.S. But you and Mike S. are brilliant to have figured out what mistake was being made. On 2012-09-17, at 7:52 PM, Emma Cohen wrote:
You guys don't get an alternate form? I see
Alternate form: n^4 + n^4(1/3)
I, too, had come to the conclusion that it was thinking of the second "n" as a function (particularly since adding a space between it and the opening parenthesis fixes the problem), but I couldn't figure out how that might explain this particular result. Changing the exponent on the first "n" also changes it on the second, but changing it to a variable completely changes the sorts of results I get, so it's hard to compare. If I change the first "n" to an "m", this issue goes away (while the latter "n" is still clearly treated as a function).