abs and sign simplification
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Corey Richardson
on 29 Sep 2016
Commented: Corey Richardson
on 29 Sep 2016
In some symbolic manipulations, I get a result which has something like abs(e)*sign(e). Why is this not simplified away, even by simplify? It's surely an identity that e = abs(e)*sign(e). For example, with this code:
syms x
diff(norm(diff(cos(x))))
% ans = (abs(sin(t))*sign(sin(t))*cos(t))/(abs(sin(t))^2)^(1/2)
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Massimo Zanetti
on 29 Sep 2016
Edited: Massimo Zanetti
on 29 Sep 2016
It happens because for the scalar case norm(y)=|y| (here y=y(x) is any function), therefore Matlab computes derivative by splitting the two cases in the derivative of|y|: y>=0 and y<0. Then it combines the results in a signle function by the sign*|.| trick.
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Massimo Zanetti
on 29 Sep 2016
Actually the point is, why you need to rewrite something that is correct?
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