--- Richard Fateman <fateman@cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> I also have integration look-up code, though it is not
> really macsyma-oriented, rather it is a web server. The
> idea is: if you have a problem, look it up in our table.
> (20 millisecs). If you find it, go away happy. If you don't
> find it, run some algorithms.
I'd noticed that - one of the cooler websites I've seen lately :-) Has
anyone tested maxima against that huge list of intergals?
> I would still like to figure some way of getting the
> commercial macsyma improvements into maxima.
Hear hear. Unfortunately, that would mean finding it, and convincing
whoever has it to let go of it. If I recall correctly, Richard Petti
can't disclose the buyer, and the buyer sure hasn't disclosed
him/herself, even by marketing the product or trying to sell it. Also,
since that person probably paid a good chunck of cash for it, they are
also probably going to be reluctant to let go of it for free.
> In any of these efforts (my own included) there is always
> the danger of someone saying "I have a really good replacement
> for the X module" when in reality it is in almost all
> ways inferior. A valuable component of this group
> effort would be thorough testing. Presumably the
> commercial people developed test suites.
If not, maybe we could start with the make test stuff and develop our
own, adding each case anyone has trouble with in old or new code and
building up from there?
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