formal power series package



Daniel Duparc <daniel.duparc@free.fr> writes:

> I have another problem: I don't know how
> to use the function "revert" described 
> in this chapter(e.g. how to invert the 
> Taylor series of sin(x)).

(C1) bothcases:false$
(C2) load("revert");
(D2) 	     /usr/share/maxima/5.9.0.rc4/share/calculus/revert.mac
(C3) revert(taylor(sin(x),x,0,7),x);
			   7	    5	     3
		       75 X  + 126 X  + 280 X  + 1680 X
(D3)/R/ 	       --------------------------------
				     1680
(C4) distrib(%);
				7      5    3
			     5 X    3 X	   X
(D4) 			     ---- + ---- + -- + X
			     112     40	   6
(C5) taylor(asin(x),x,0,7);
			      3	     5	    7
			     X	  3 X	 5 X
(D5)/T/ 		 X + -- + ---- + ---- + . . .
			     6	   40	 112
(C6) 

The explanation is... no, no sermon on case-sensitivity this time :-)
As an alternative, you could dispense with setting BOTHCASES to FALSE
by converting all of revert.mac to uppercase.

Wolfgang