With this I want to reply to Robert Jerrard & Mario Rodriguez.
You all are right, I know that it "is a perfect opportunity to
discuss the importance of " discuss "something that they do not expect".
But I'm not a teacher, I do not work with students but with teachers
that, by definition, they do not learn, they teach :-) (luckily, not all
teachers have this 'attitude').
So I'm trying to propose the use of free software for teaching and I'm
trying to answer at questions like: "...but that commercial sw do it
correctly...". Trying not to discuss what is really correct in this
field, is there any easy way to force maxima to emit only results for
imaginary part=0?
I assume that the easy answer is simply: "no".
Many thanks and sorry for boring you all with such 'political'
questions...
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Marco Ciampa
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