>>>>> "Poul" == Poul Riis <Poul.Riis@skolekom.dk> writes: Poul> I would be happy to see Maxima reduce the function Poul> g(x):=tanh(x)^2+sech(x)^2-1; Poul> but neither trigexpand nor trigreduce does the job. Poul> What should I do to get the expected zero? trigsimp seems to simplify it to 0. Ray