Sets in maxima



Thanks very much for nsets, it looks to be quite useful for my
application.

Chris


On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Barton Willis wrote:

> I suggest that you use Nset.  It's  (1) not obviously broken, (2) better 
> tested,  (3) has better
> documentation, and (4) has more functions than any other set package that 
> is in the Maxima 
> distribution.   Files in /contrib are not necessarily in purgatory---some 
> of them are better
> than similar code found elsewhere.
> 
> I also suggest that you get the latest version of Maxima Nset from my 
> webpage.
> 
> Another thing: Stavros Macrakis is the co-author of Maxima Nset.  I wrote 
> many of the higher-level
> functions, the user documentation, and the testing code.  Much of the rest 
> is due to Stavros.
> 
> Barton
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Chris Sangwin 
> Sent by: maxima-admin@math.utexas.edu
> 02/04/2005 06:20 AM
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> 
> I have looked at Barton Willis's contributed nset package instead, but of
> course I'd prefer to use packages that are included in the core of Maxima
> itself.
> 
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