On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Robert Dodier <robert.dod...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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
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