strange behavior or bug on ode2



Raymond Toy wrote:

> Barton Willis wrote:
>
>> You have not done anything wrong----maxima gets stuck trying to 
>> integrate
>>      integrate(exp(t/2) *sin(t) * sin(sqrt(3) * t/2),t);
>>
>>  
>>
> It's much worse than that.  cos((sqrt(3)-2)/2*t) loops forever trying 
> to simplify itself.
>
> Not sure why, yet.

FWIW, if you set trigsign : false, the above expression doesn't loop 
forever, the integration returns, and the original ode problem returns 
some result that looks like it might be right.

Ray