> > taylor(asin(sin(x)+e),x,0,2) =>
> > Quotient by a polynomial of higher degree
> I encountered this problem very often too, does this have a
> mathematical background or is it really a bug? Any ideas?>
> Why did you put "rat problem?" there?
It is a bug. I said "rat problem" because this is sometimes a symptom
of a bug in the CRE package. There was a similar bug in Maxima 5.5
which was patched -- I trust the patch made it into 5.9.0.
-s