On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 03:04, Juan Pablo Hierro Álvarez wrote:
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> Recently, there has been a bug announced in this list. Basically, maxima
> failed to integrate properly expresions of the type:
> integrate(3^log(x), x);
> It produced an erroneous result, which is worst than not producing result at
> all. The reason is just it tries to use the sin algorithm to evaluate the
> integral instead of the risch algorithm, which is more general but produces
> results which are harder to simplify.
I think we are better off fixing the broken routine than hard coding a
way to avoid it. Wolfgang Jenker produced a fix.
--Jim