quadratic, was: Re: [Maxima] romberg or numerical integration



Am 30 Jun 2006 um 11:25 hat Robert Dodier geschrieben:

> Jim,
> 
> Numerical integration is a wheel that has been reinvented at
> various times in Maxima. Better to use the quadpack functions
> (translations from Fortran into Lisp) than romberg or quanc8
> (a Newton-Cotes algorithm).
> 
> ? quad
> 

Hello,

I typed in '? quad' and got information from 'simplification.info' about a function 'quadratic', 
which is defined in 'share/simplification/functs.mac', but commented out. 

Why was 'quadratic' commented out?
What to do? Cleaning up 'simplification.texi'?

Volker