diff --git a/Sources/AngouriMath/Functions/Simplification/Simplificator.cs b/Sources/AngouriMath/Functions/Simplification/Simplificator.cs
index a8898d766..36cf0b2b1 100644
--- a/Sources/AngouriMath/Functions/Simplification/Simplificator.cs
+++ b/Sources/AngouriMath/Functions/Simplification/Simplificator.cs
@@ -206,6 +206,26 @@ not solve this issue completely and yet too slow to be accepted.
             {
                 AddHistory(res.Expand().Simplify(-level));
                 AddHistory(res.Factorize().Simplify(-level));
+
+                // A multiple angle written out is worth having only where the pieces then
+                // cancel, so it has to be simplified in full before the metric can be
+                // asked -- the same reason Expand and Factorize are re-simplified above,
+                // and for the same reason it is a candidate rather than a step. The pass
+                // inside the loop offers the opened form to the trigonometric rules only,
+                // which settles an expression that is already one term; it cannot settle
+                // one whose cancellation needs a common denominator, because the passes
+                // that build one ran earlier in the loop, while the angles were still shut.
+                // That is https://github.com/asc-community/AngouriMath/issues/557: the
+                // reporter's second expression is 0, and reaches 0 through
+                // 2 sin(t) cos(t) and not through sin(2t).
+                var openedAngles = res
+                    .Replace(Patterns.ExpandMultipleAngleRules)
+                    .Replace(Patterns.NormalTrigonometricForm)
+                    .InnerSimplified;
+                if (openedAngles != res)
+                    // Expanded, and for the same reason res is expanded above: the
+                    // cancellation only shows up once the products are multiplied out.
+                    AddHistory(openedAngles.Expand().Simplify(-level));
             }
 
             return history.Values.SelectMany(x => x);
diff --git a/Sources/Tests/UnitTests/PatternsTest/DoubleAngleOverSineTest.cs b/Sources/Tests/UnitTests/PatternsTest/DoubleAngleOverSineTest.cs
index 14823395e..a2e0079a0 100644
--- a/Sources/Tests/UnitTests/PatternsTest/DoubleAngleOverSineTest.cs
+++ b/Sources/Tests/UnitTests/PatternsTest/DoubleAngleOverSineTest.cs
@@ -37,6 +37,34 @@ private static Entity Bare(string expression)
         public void TheDoubleAngleOverTheSingleOne(string expression, string expected) =>
             Assert.Equal(expected.ToEntity().Simplify(), Bare(expression));
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// The second expression the reporter gives, which is the first one with a
+        /// quotient of sixth and eighth powers of sin(t) added in front of it. Both are 0.
+        /// <para/>
+        /// This one needs the opened angle to survive as far as the fractions: the quotient
+        /// only cancels once its terms are over a common denominator, and the passes that
+        /// build one run before the angles are opened. So the opened form was offered to the
+        /// complexity metric in the one shape where its payoff had not happened yet, and was
+        /// rightly rejected as the longer of the two. It is now simplified in full first --
+        /// including expanded, since the cancellation only shows up once the products are
+        /// multiplied out -- which is what Expand and Factorize already get.
+        /// </summary>
+        [Fact]
+        public void TheReportersSecondExpressionIsAlsoZero() =>
+            Assert.Equal(Entity.Number.Integer.Create(0), Bare(
+                "(cos(2 * t) * sin(t) ^ 6 * (-1) + cos(t) * sin(t) ^ 5 * sin(2 * t)"
+                + " - sin(2 * t) ^ 2 * sin(t) ^ 4 / 4) / sin(t) ^ 8 - 1"
+                + " + (sin(2 * t) * cosec(t)) ^ 2 / 4 - cos(2 * t) - sin(t) ^ 2"));
+
+        // The pieces it is built from, each 0 or 1 on its own. Together they say the
+        // cancellation is the quotient's and not only the tail's.
+        [Theory]
+        [InlineData("(cos(2 * t) * sin(t) ^ 6 * (-1) + cos(t) * sin(t) ^ 5 * sin(2 * t)"
+                    + " - sin(2 * t) ^ 2 * sin(t) ^ 4 / 4) / sin(t) ^ 8", "1")]
+        [InlineData("(sin(t) ^ 6 - sin(2 * t) ^ 2 * sin(t) ^ 4 / 4) / sin(t) ^ 8 - 1", "0")]
+        public void TheQuotientCancelsOnItsOwn(string expression, string expected) =>
+            Assert.Equal(expected.ToEntity(), Bare(expression));
+
         /// <summary>
         /// 2cos(u) is a number where sin(u) is zero and sin(2u) csc(u) is not, so the
         /// cosecant's own condition has to be carried rather than dropped. It is the same