On Feb 13, 9:09 am, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > In case nobody noticed, I'm not exactly a big fan of the Ma*'s. But > for whatever reason -- perhaps their purely selfish desire to make > money -- they do often try to listen to users and solve problems, > instead of making excuses like some posters in this thread.
For my part I am willing to consider modifying asksign (the Maxima function which originates the "Is foo positive or ...?" questions) to apply some simplifications in an effort to avoid some questions. Maybe it's as simple as wedging a call to trigsimp into asksign. I haven't looked at it and I'm distracted by other things so it's unlikely that I'll do it. But if someone wants to look into it and make a report and/or proposal to the Maxima mailing list, then more power to you. A larger issue is that asksign is generally obnoxious. I've worked on ways to construct a conditional expression instead of requiring user input. I'll be happy to collaborate with interested parties on a solution. Believe it or not, Maxima is not stuck in a time warp; progress is actually possible, when we stop carping and focus on solving problems instead. FWIW Robert Dodier --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
