On Tue, 28 Nov 2023 at 17:25, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Answering part of my question: it seems that sympy and maxima have > different attitudes towards fractional powers of negative numbers, which > may be the source of the problem. > > Yes. Maxima's attitude is that the square root of negative one is an > expression which might have multiple values, rather than just picking one you > hope might be consistent over branch points. (There are very long > discussions on this list about this from years ago, which I will spare you by > not linking to any of them.) I would not be surprised if that came up here.
I wouldn't mind seeing those discussions if you have a link to send (perhaps only to me). -- Oscar -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-support/CAHVvXxQKe1HvcD%2BYL3CHTpyH7s2K_LeEEq6Z-wJKjAmYjw5jGQ%40mail.gmail.com.
