Question: Maple needs 827 characters to write a equation of a straight line.

Hello,

Maple needs 827 characters to write a equation of a straight line.
Is that true or what am I doing wrong?   

Can anybody help me or give a direction to handle with such problems?

Putting
  assume(2<alpha , alpha<=4);about (alpha);
before it does not help either.

f:=-(6*(3*alpha^2*(alpha-1+sqrt(alpha^2-3*alpha+2))^4/(alpha-1)^4-12*alpha^2*(alpha-1+sqrt(alpha^2-3*alpha+2))^3/(alpha-1)^3-6*alpha*(alpha-1+sqrt(alpha^2-3*alpha+2))^4/(alpha-1)^4+16*alpha^2*(alpha-1+sqrt(alpha^2-3*alpha+2))^2/(alpha-1)^2+24*alpha*(alpha-1+sqrt(alpha^2-3*alpha+2))^3/(alpha-1)^3+3*(alpha-1+sqrt(alpha^2-3*alpha+2))^4/(alpha-1)^4-8*alpha^2*(alpha-1+sqrt(alpha^2-3*alpha+2))/(alpha-1)-24*alpha*(alpha-1+sqrt(alpha^2-3*alpha+2))^2/(alpha-1)^2-12*(alpha-1+sqrt(alpha^2-3*alpha+2))^3/(alpha-1)^3+8*(alpha-1+sqrt(alpha^2-3*alpha+2))^2/(alpha-1)^2+8*alpha+(8*(alpha-1+sqrt(alpha^2-3*alpha+2)))/(alpha-1)-7))/(alpha*(alpha-1+sqrt(alpha^2-3*alpha+2))^2/(alpha-1)^2-2*alpha*(alpha-1+sqrt(alpha^2-3*alpha+2))/(alpha-1)-(alpha-1+sqrt(alpha^2-3*alpha+2))^2/(alpha-1)^2+(2*(alpha-1+sqrt(alpha^2-3*alpha+2)))/(alpha-1)-1)^4;