Maxima GUIs/emacs troubles! (and commutativity issues)
Subject: Maxima GUIs/emacs troubles! (and commutativity issues)
From: Raymond Toy
Date: 01 Feb 2002 17:54:25 -0500
>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Lemire <daniel.lemire@ns.sympatico.ca> writes:
Daniel> Ok, well things got a bit better... now, I'm just hoping that some of
Daniel> the bugs I found (should I report computational bugs? what is the
Most definitely! I certainly would want to know that maxima is giving
wrong answers!
Daniel> One bug I had was that an expression which was obviously zero, say
Daniel> a*b-b*a would not cancel to zero... just like maxima would not assume
Daniel> commutativity.
I don't see this. Even my old maxima 5.6/gcl 2.4.0 returns 0.
Ray