On 11/22/05, Barton Willis wrote:
> http://www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/2002/002955.html
> http://www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/2002/002949.html
For what it's worth I'm entirely in agreement with the remarks
by Raymond Toy in the cited messages.
> Maybe 5.9.3 would be a good time to:
>
> (a) make the Maxima acosh function the same as the CL acosh function.
>
> (b) move numerical evaluation for exponetial-like functions to CL. Then
> Maxima would not have to use rectform to evaluate things like sin(1.0 + 5.0 * %i).
>
> (c) check for other branch cut inconsistencies.
I'm in favor of all of these actions, although I would not try to
put a target on their completion; I would be inclined to include
them in whatever is the "next release" as they are completed.
Robert Dodier