Dear Professor Fateman,
Many sincere thanks for your reply with respect to
newdiff too. This is a definitive reply and a valuable
piece of information I have been unaware of and it
seems not included in the Symbolics Macsyma User's
Guide (January 1988 edition) I have (officially) available
here and try to study during this period.
Kindest regards from Patras,
Nikolaos I. Ioakimidis
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Fateman" <fateman at cs>
To: "Nikolaos I. Ioakimidis" <ioakimidis@otenet.gr>
Cc: <maxima@www.ma.utexas.edu>
Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 3:59 AM
Subject: Re: [Maxima] Differentiation problem in Maxima
> There is a flag in commercial macsyma, newdiff,
> which can be set to true in which case
> diff(f(2*x),x) comes out as 2*f^(1)(2*x) where ^(1) means
> diff wrt first argument.
>
> RJF