[Q] How to get a float in this case?

On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 09:54, Vladimir Bondarenko wrote:

> If I use   EV(INTEGRATE(COTH(1-6*Z), Z, 0, 1), NUMER);
> the result is a float,
> 
>            0.5235987755983 %I - 0.69089467615141
> 
> However, if a bit different is used
> 
>            int:INTEGRATE(COTH(1-6*Z), Z, 0, 1)$
>            EV(int, NUMER);
> 
> the result turns out to be
> 
>            0.16666666666667 (3.141592653589793 %I +
>            0.1614393615712)- 0.71780123641328
> 
> What should I use instead of  EV(int, NUMER);
> to approximate int to 0.5235987755983 %I - 0.69089467615141 ?

Either use:

	expand(ev(int,numer));

or

	keepfloat:true;
	ratexpand(ev(int,numer));

As a personal comment, I will say that I do not like behavior of
ev(x,numer). It will be discussed at some future date.

--Jim