Why does simplify not work here?

Question:Why does simplify not work here?

Posted: qwertz 22 Product: Maple

May 27 2010

Hi,

I'm trying to simplify the following:

simplify((x^3)^(2/3));

I'm expecting x^2 but Maple doesn't simplify anything. Why not? I'm clueless.

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