> But the example in my original message works -- this really confuses me. > Clearly, simplify_trig invokes maxima to do the simplification, so why does > setting this flag in pynac make it work? Are functions of real variables > treated differently from functions taking a complex argument? > > OK, I understand this now -- when defining a function of a real argument the abs is simply not taken into account because of the square following it, so that the trig simplification can take its course as before.
I still think it would be a good idea to have the simplify_* methods take into account the domain of definition to avoid problems like this. Presumably I'm missing a whole lot of context here, feel free to point me to tickets where the opposite point has been made. J. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
