Re: Handling branch cuts for hypergeometric functions
Subject: Re: Handling branch cuts for hypergeometric functions
From: Stavros Macrakis
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 13:05:40 -0500
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 11:15:12 -0500, Viktor T. Toth wrote:
> Well, if maxima doesn't know, perhaps it should respond with an error!
> Preferably, an informative error message. For instance, something like:
>
> Ambiguous: use assume(x<0) or assume(x>=0) to obtain result
This would be easy to do. Under control of a flag (say, ASK_ERROR),
have asksign1 give an error message (merror) with text like the above.
Similarly in ask-integerp, ask-evod, and ask-prop.
-s