On 2014-04-16, jorges <jscandalia...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Indeed, that looks good. I still don't understand what you mean by "the 
> symbolic integration is not valid when q=1". I would think substituting 
> before or after should not make a difference.

Well, if they're not the same, that's a bug in Maxima. If you have time,
it would be terrific if you could make a bug report.
See: http://sf.net/p/maxima/bugs

> Also, I remember that I 
> attempted to simplify before integrating before, mainly to speed up 
> calculations, but had some bad experience with real numbers and maxima. I 
> can't recall the precise details right now, but after that I "learned" to 
> defer substitution to the very end.

A different way to handle that is to change the floats to rational numbers,
via ratsimp. Then Maxima will be happy with expressions which contain
those numbers.

Hope this helps,

Robert Dodier

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