is() problem



Dear All,

now I'm having a problem with IS(). I'd like to know whether
sin(x)/cos(x)=tan(x). I'm writing:

IS(EQUAL(sin(x)/cos(x),tan(x)));

Maxima reports an error:

MACSYMA was unable to evaluate the predicate:
ERREXP1
 -- an error.  Quitting.  To debug this try DEBUGMODE(TRUE);)

Is this the normal behaviour?

TIA, Zoltan

Kova'cs Zolta'n
assistant teacher at Bolyai Institute
kovzol@math.u-szeged.hu
http://www.math.u-szeged.hu/~kovzol