maxima-admin@math.utexas.edu wrote on 12/01/2005 11:29:36 AM:
> I think we can make lognumer really hard to change to true
> by adding it to some list kept by msetq.
>
> I think that the "killer application" for maxima, if there is
> one, is education., so needs of calc students may, in fact,
> be important in that context.
> RJF
(0) I think some Maxima features were added just because
somebody thought it was cute at the moment. Inertia
preserves the feature. I don't know, but it doesn't
seem that every Maxima feature was subject to a rigorous
review.
(1) The 'logabs' option should keep calculus students
and teachers happy.
(2) When lognumer is true, I sill don't know what to
do with log(1.23 + %i * 0.97). That's my question.
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