Am Sun, 19 Oct 2003 20:56:15 -0400 hat Stavros Macrakis
<stavros.macrakis@verizon.net> geschrieben:
> As for factoring polynomials in radicals in general, I believe there has
> been some progress in practical algorithms for this, but frankly I have
> not followed that field. Do other CAS's support it?
Neither Maple nor Mathematica nor MuPad can factor your polynomial.
Generally, it is useful that a CAS like Maxima implement the newest and
best algorithms, of course, but this was not what I meant. What I meant
was that "solve" (for polynomials in on symbol, that is in R[X]) seems to
be more powerful than "factor" even though both commands do essentially
the same thing. That is the same thing Maple does. I simply wondered, why.
> Would you be willing to implement it for Maxima?
If I did it, if I started to temper with Maxima, the number of Maxima
users would rapidly decrease... Maybe I should ask Wofram research to pay
me for that...
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JB