On Monday, November 27, 2017 at 1:29:15 PM UTC, Nils Bruin wrote: > > > hmm, the call in question is *._maxima_() rather than *._maxima_lib(). >> Isn't the former a pexpect call, rather than maxima_lib call? >> > > given that maxima_lib(ex).simptrig() and maxma(ex).simptrig() give > different errors (the first one agreeing with the originally reported > error) I think it's clear that they use different maxima instances. > Furthermore, the fact that it goes wrong in "proper" maxima as well > indicates that there's actually a bug in maxima triggered by this example > too. >
it appears to be a bug in our Lisp/Maxima version combo: Maxima 5.39.0 http://maxima.sourceforge.net using Lisp ECL 16.1.2 In fact in Maxima 5.40.0 http://maxima.sourceforge.net using Lisp SBCL 1.3.18 I obtain an answer: (%i3) trigsimp(eee); m1 m2 (%o3) ------- m2 + m1 -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.