Re: [Maxima-bugs] [ maxima-Bugs-1407378 ] polarform returns a rectangular expression for float argumen
Subject: Re: [Maxima-bugs] [ maxima-Bugs-1407378 ] polarform returns a rectangular expression for float argumen
From: Stavros Macrakis
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 19:32:23 -0500
Interestingly, Polarform manages to block some other simplifications:
exp(%i*%pi) => -1
but
polarform(-1) => exp(%i*%pi)
exp(%i*%pi/2) => %i
but
polarform(%i) => exp(%i*%pi/2)
I originally wrote both polarform (rpart.lisp) and power (mopers.lisp) many
years ago, but I can't remember how this works....