Re: [Maxima-bugs] [ maxima-Bugs-1407378 ] polarform returns a rectangular expression for float argumen

>>>>> "Stavros" == Stavros Macrakis <macrakis at gmail.com> writes:

    Stavros> Along these lines, what do we think polarform(1) should return?  The
    Stavros> reasonable answers are:

    Stavros>       -- 1             (current result)
    Stavros>       -- %e^0       (simplify the 1* part)
    Stavros>       -- 1*1          (no good argument for this case, I don't think...)
    Stavros>       -- 1*%e^0    (no simplification at all to preserve the form)

I think either the first or the last would be acceptable, with a
slight preference to the first.  If the latter were written
1*%e^(0*%i), it might be better than the first.  I think the other two
would just cause people to wonder why they weren't simplified.

Ray