The first mystery is old and really intriguing and sometimes we cannot
simplify e.g. the product of rotation matrices due to this quite
randomic bahaviour
Differently from you I dont know why this happens!
Daniel
On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 18:18:37 -0500, Viktor T. Toth <vttoth@vttoth.com> wrote:
> Some minor mysteries:
>
> 1. I think I know why this happens, but should it be happening?
>
> (%i1) trigsimp(sin(x)^2+cos(x)^2);
>
> (%o1) 1
> (%i2) kill(all);
>
> (%o0) done
> (%i1) trigsimp(sin(x)^2+cos(x)^2);
>
> 2 2
> (%o1) sin (x) + cos (x)
>
> 2. This is cosmetic only, but can be annoying, e.g., when creating demos:
> When a "string" (yes, I know MAXIMA doesn't really have strings, hence the
> quotes) containing a linefeed is barfed back, it becomes double spaced. Is
> this intentional?
>
> (%i2) "This is a ...
> ... two line string.";
>
> (%o2) This is a ...
>
> ... two line string.
>
> Viktor
>
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