> BTW, one important warning: ginac and sympycore are missing > assumptions and sympy only has very trivial ones, like positive, > negative, integer, even, odd, etc. This is really important for any > nontrivial things in a CAS and I changes to the core may be needed. I > really want to have assumptions in sympy first before saying -- yes, > this approach to do the core is the best. > > Ondrej
Why are assumptions "really important for any nontrivial things in a CAS"? In my entire life I've only ever used assumptions to get maxima to do a symbolic integration. I've never used them in any other context. Can you please educate me on why they are so important? Thanks. william --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---