Re: [sage-support] suggested improvement for simplify_trig

2012-01-25 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 4:11 AM, Jesús TC wrote: > Hi all! > > This is my 1st message here, so I hope not to do something not > appropriate. > > Working through a simple problem, I noticed that Sage fails in > simplifying things like >   cos((1/7)*pi) + cos((6/7)*pi) > to zero, which Mathematica d

[sage-support] suggested improvement for simplify_trig

2012-01-25 Thread Jesús TC
Hi all! This is my 1st message here, so I hope not to do something not appropriate. Working through a simple problem, I noticed that Sage fails in simplifying things like cos((1/7)*pi) + cos((6/7)*pi) to zero, which Mathematica does correctly. I have tested it up to the 5.0 beta1 Curiously, x