The Maxima version which is present in Sage fails for this problem, se the session below.
Which version of Maxima do you use on your computer? In Sage there is version 5.19.1. Does your computation work in this version of Maxima? Robert ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Sage Version 4.2, Release Date: 2009-10-24 | | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- sage: maxima("expr:1.4*(.1873*z+.1752)/(z-1)/(z-.8187)") 1.4*(0.1873*z+0.1752)/((z-1)*(z-0.8187)) sage: maxima("expr:1.4*(.1873*z+.1752)/(z-1)/(z-.8187)") 1.4*(0.1873*z+0.1752)/((z-1)*(z-0.8187)) sage: maxima("partfrac(expr,z)") --------------------------------------------------------------------------- TypeError Traceback (most recent call last) /home/marik/<ipython console> in <module>() /home.ldf/sdileny/sage/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sage/ interfaces/expect.pyc in __call__(self, x, name) 1029 1030 if isinstance(x, basestring): -> 1031 return cls(self, x, name=name) 1032 try: 1033 return self._coerce_from_special_method(x) /home.ldf/sdileny/sage/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sage/ interfaces/expect.pyc in __init__(self, parent, value, is_name, name) 1445 except (TypeError, KeyboardInterrupt, RuntimeError, ValueError), x: 1446 self._session_number = -1 -> 1447 raise TypeError, x 1448 self._session_number = parent._session_number 1449 TypeError: Error executing code in Maxima CODE: sage2 : partfrac(expr,z)$ Maxima ERROR: Inverse of zero divisor? sage: --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---