simplify programs, poisson...forwarded message from Richard Fateman

There used to be programs  intopois and poissimp.

They seem to be broken in the Maxima I have.
RJF


alexandre@emc.ufsc.br wrote:

> Where can I find information about:
> 1) "...programs or some rules to transforms...", reduce or simplify
> expresions, when "...the manipulation may not fall into the
> category of just using one of the built-in commands..."
> 
> 2)"... a canonical form is better for the computer, and
> even if the expression looks bad in intermediate form it
> might be better to use poisson forms..."
> 
> I did not find this topics in the Maxima Manual. I have problems to get
> the feeling to put a trigonometric polynomial in the simplest form, after
> several multiplications, I'd like to use the poisson forms...but I cannot
> find information...
> 

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