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Doesn't help, because if you start with the sum of N square roots you end up (in the general case) with 2^N square roots once you raise it to a power.
by cperciva 5y ago
Doesn't help, because if you start with the sum of N square roots you end up (in the general case) with 2^N square roots once you raise it to a power.
- chrisshroba 5y agoI was curious how this would play out and didn't see your comment, so I made a Jupyter notebook of raising various sums of square roots to various powers. Posting in case anyone else finds it interesting: https://gist.github.com/chrisshroba/8f12757ecbcdd394ceccb3e9577f7c0d https://gist.github.com/chrisshroba/8f12757ecbcdd394ceccb3e9...