Barton Willis wrote:
> I suggest that we change Maxima so that
> 1.0 * x --> 1.0 * x,
> 1.0b0 * x --> 1.0b0 * x.
I think this is a good idea. Have no idea how to do that, though.
> For now, evaluation of trig functions with complex big float
> arguments isn't automatic --- a user still needs to use rectform.
I've fixed some of the bigfloat issues (see the bug reports). I also
have some more accurate complex bigfloat versions of sinh/asinh and
tanh/atanh, and sqrt.
> errors or non-standard branch cuts; I also discovered errors
> in trigexpand for sec and csc. The trigexpand code is too
> recondite for me to understand. Maybe someone else would
> like to fix these bugs (see my bug reports).
I can't say I really understand the code either, but I think the
trigexpand issues are fixed. See the bug reports.
I think the changes you've made are quite nice. It was always a pain to
have to use rectform. Now we just need to make it work for bigfloats. :-)
Ray