Question: The Old Simplification problem.

I am just wondering why something that has been bothering me since Maple V up to including Maple 2024 has never been resolved properly.

Why is it so difficult for maple to solve a dead obvious and simple expression e.g.

sqrt(cos(gamma)^(5/3)/sin(2*gamma)^(5/3));

You can use algsubs to tell maple to use an elementary identity to substitute the double angle away, but even then it refuses to simplify the remaining fraction which is elementary at most.

So, when will e.g. this simple multiple generational issue be addressed  so maple can do the obvious simplifications.

There are much more severe examples concerning trigonometric functions under square roots, which was left out in this case to show just one issue.

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