bug#10763: 23.4; calc-embedded fails to simplify units in \frac

bug#10763: 23.4; calc-embedded fails to simplify units in \frac

[Jeffrey Ratcliffe]

Using calc-embedded in LaTeX:

\documentclass[pdftex,a4paper]{report}
$ a \gets 3 m $
$ b \gets 4 m $
$ \evalto \alpha \gets \arcsin\left( \frac{a}{b} \right) \to
\arcsin\left( \frac{0.75 m}{m} \right) $
\end{document}

calc doesn't finish evaluating the expression, presumably because it
has failed to
simplify the units in the fraction.

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bug#10763: 23.4; calc-embedded fails to simplify units in \frac

[Jay Belanger]

> Using calc-embedded in LaTeX:
>
> \documentclass[pdftex,a4paper]{report}
> $ a \gets 3 m $
> $ b \gets 4 m $
> $ \evalto \alpha \gets \arcsin\left( \frac{a}{b} \right) \to
> \arcsin\left( \frac{0.75 m}{m} \right) $
> \end{document}
>
> calc doesn't finish evaluating the expression, presumably because it
> has failed to simplify the units in the fraction.

By default, Calc doesn't cancel the common factors of the top and bottom
of a fraction unless they are the leading factors.  If you want Calc
to cancel any common factors, you can use algebraic simplification mode.
You can turn that on with "m A".  

So for the above file, you can open it and type "C-x * a" (to activate
all of the formulas), go to the evalto line and type "C-x * e" (to work
on the embedded formula), and then "m A" to put Calc in algebraic
simplification mode.  You will then get 
  $\evalto \alpha \gets \arcsin\left( \frac{a}{b} \right) \to 48.5903778907$
(if you are in degree mode and not in symbolic mode).
You can type "m A" to get out of algebraic simplification mode or "m m"
to save algebraic simplification mode (and any other modes you are
using) for future sessions.

Jay