TILU and Maxima



Richard Fateman wrote:

> Raymond Toy wrote:
> >>>>>>"CY" == C Y <smustudent1@yahoo.com> writes:
> >>>>>
> >
> >     CY> --- Andrei Zorine <zoav1@uic.nnov.ru> wrote:
> >     >> Hello,
> >     >> why isn't TILU incorporated into Maxima? Will it ever be?
> >     >> --
> >     >> Andrei Zorine
> >
> >     CY> I think, for the most part, Maxima should be able to do the integrals?
> >     CY> Dr. Fateman is really the one to answer this, but IIRC this came up on
> >     CY> the list a long time ago.  There was some interest in using TILU as a
> >     CY> test package for the integration functions of Maxima, but nothing ever
> >     CY> came of it that I recall.  Anyone remember how that worked?
> >
> > I don't remember how it worked, but I think one of the major issues is
> > that the things in TILU are not free enough to be incorporated into
> > maxima.
> >
> > I suppose it would be possible to open up an internet connection to
> > the TILU site and do integrals that way.
>
> That would certainly be very welcome from my perspective.  It would
> mean that maxima would have to be upgraded somewhat to understand
> the kinds of things that tilu can return.
>
> For example, Tilu can say that it found 3 answers to the question,
> one of them requiring some parameter to be equal to some particular
> value, but the other 2 answers presumably different but equivalent
> forms.
>
> Tilu incorporates some data that CRC Press presumably owns.  The

Could you refresh my memory here?  What data is this?

>
> program itself could be given out.  I tried to give it to CRC press,
> for example.
> Publishers know about selling books.  They don't know about programs.
> RJF
> >
> > Ray
> >
> >
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