Sometimes changing the GCD algorithm to one without
a bug in it helps. gcd:subres for example.
Stavros Macrakis wrote:
>>>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
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