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Bug in Distribute Function (?)

Posted 12 years ago

What's going on here: Distribute[(a - b)^2]

Output:a^2 + b^2

While Distribute[(a - b) (c - d)] gives

a c - b c - a d + b d

Mathematica Version 9.0.1

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Thank you. But in future I will use Expand instead of Distribute.

Best regards

POSTED BY: Ilian Gachevski
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