The simplify/power procedure is used to simplify powers, exponentials, and logarithms in an expression.

This calling sequence prevents simplify from analyzing the expression and calling other simplification routines, therefore returning a result much more quickly.

The symbolic option can be used if it does not matter whether the transformations are correct over the whole complex plane.

$\mathrm{simplify}\left({\left(a^b\right)}^c\,\mathrm{power}\right)$

${\left(a^b\right)}^c$

$\mathrm{simplify}\left({\left(a^b\right)}^c\,\mathrm{power}\,\mathrm{symbolic}\right)$

$a^{bc}$

$\mathrm{simplify}\left(x^a{x}^b\,\mathrm{power}\right)$

$x^{a+b}$

$\mathrm{simplify}\left(\exp \left(5\ln \left(x\right)+1\right)\,\mathrm{power}\right)$

$x^5\ⅇ$

$\mathrm{simplify}\left(\ln \left(xy\right)\,\mathrm{power}\right)$

$\ln \left(xy\right)$

$\mathrm{simplify}\left(\ln \left(xy\right)\,\mathrm{power}\,\mathrm{symbolic}\right)$

$\ln \left(x\right)+\ln \left(y\right)$