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Hi,

I am working with equations on Maple which depends on a parameter (epsilon), which can assume only the values +1 and -1 (I intent to replace this value only in the end of calculation). When, however, Maple computes the expressions, the result contains severals powers of epsilon, for instance epsilon^7 or epsilon^4. Since actually we have that epsilon^7=epsilon and epsilon^4=1, respectively, it would be very usefull to me if Maple 

Is it too much to expect Maple 13 to do some basic simplification that a 8th grader student could do to clean up some of the wacky expressions it outputs?  In the above, why could it not divide by "C" straight away?  And why does it leave a minus sign hanging outside the expression?  A little more development programming effort devoted...

simplify(expr, power, symbol, size);

- simplification by size proceeds 1st or last?

I am solving ode system in double precesion with digits 16, some results are in power of -16 which are equivalent to zero. How can I ask maple to put any number with the power of -16 or less to be zero?

Thx for the help.