On Friday 24 October 2008 16:20:24 Stan Schymanski wrote: > 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.
Eventually, yes. To be able to extend / improve / customize such maxima functions is one of the main reasons behind the pynac backed symbolics effort. Cheers, Burcin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---