solutions of simple polynomial equations not exact
Subject: solutions of simple polynomial equations not exact
From: Barton Willis
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:16:31 -0600
maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu wrote on 11/28/2006 11:00:25 AM:
> Has the default value of algexact changed? Though the exact solutions
> are messy, Maxima is after all primarily a symbolic system, and I'd
> think we should give exact solutions whenever we can (by default).
>
The user documentation for 5.10.0 says that default for algexact is
false. We should try changing the default to true for the next release.
Barton