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Question: Simplifying a nested radical

Question:Simplifying a nested radical

Kitonum 21425 Maple 2018
June 05 2025
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It is not difficult to manually check the validity of the identity  sqrt(x+2*sqrt(x-1)) = sqrt(x-1)+1 , which is true at least for all  x>=1 . I don't know of any Maple command that directly makes this simplification:

expr:=sqrt(x+2*sqrt(x-1));
simplify(expr);
simplify(expr) assuming x>=1;

                          


It was possible to simplify it only by making a variable substitution  x=y+1 (and then a reverse substitution  y=x-1 ) :

expr1:=subs(x=y+1,expr);
simplify(expr1);
subs(y=x-1, %);

                               


By the way,  the CAS Mathematica also cannot cope with simplifying the expression  expr .
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