--- Raymond Toy <toy@rtp.ericsson.se> wrote:
> >>>>> "CY" == C Y <smustudent1@yahoo.com> writes:
>
> CY> current state of affairs, I've put another pdf up at
> CY> http://maxima.sourceforge.net/maximabook.pdf. Again, this is
> extremely
>
> This looks quite nice. I skimmed over various sections and have the
> following comments:
>
> o You give an example of setting HALFANGLES and give an example of
> sin(x/2) => sqrt(1-cos(x))/2. Of course, this is wrong if x is
> negative. Should you mention that?
Probably - the better thing to do, I suppose, is make function smarter.
I've added that to the buglist on sourceforge.
> o In the integration examples, I think it would be nice if you showed
> where maxima would ask questions rather than just using assume to
> suppress them.
That's not even a real section yet - there are many pages to write on
that subject. That's just me experimenting right now.
> o I only skimmed the bibliography. It seems to have lots of stuff
> that, based on the title, aren't relevant to maxima?
Not sure about that one - I haven't edited it myself. We can look more
closely later, and see what isn't relevant - I would think most of it
is in one way or another, but I can't say for sure.
CY
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