orthopoly & nset



1. I placed an update to the orthopoly package; you may download it (about 
39K)  from 

              http://www.unk.edu/acad/math/people/willisb/orthopoly-0.94.tar.gz

This is a preliminary version; expect bugs. To view the user 
documentation, go here

           http://www.unk.edu/acad/math/people/willisb/orthopoly_doc.html

2.  Stavros and I are working on some additions to nset.  Sometime ago, 
Stavros discovered
a bug in Maxima's orderlessp function (bug 776441).  This bug is so old 
(30+ years), 
it has been nicknamed the Methuselah bug.   Wolfgang Jenkner proposed a fix for it, but 
I don't know if it has been thoroughly tested.  Because nset uses 
orderlessp to order 
set members, the Methuselah bug can cause nset to misbehave.

In short, I encourage those of you that are comfortable working with the 
innards of Maxima 
to fix this bug.

Barton