Thanks for the advice! It seems like a combination of expand() and simplify() would go a long way. Unfortunately, I am not a Mathematician and hence struggle to understand rings and fields.
I am still a bit hesitant about simplify, though. Should a bug report be filed to Maxima? By the way, is pynac going to replace the maxima simplify algorithms? It seems that there is some potential for improvement there. Regards, Stan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@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-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---