On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Richard Fateman wrote:
> You should be able to produce a table of roots of the numerator and the
> denominator using ratnumer and ratdenom and allroots. The I think dataplot
> will do the rest of the job. Whether it is simple or not depends on how easy
> it is to figure out the details :)
The only command I'm having trouble with is "dataplot", is it possible to
give me a simple example of its use? Is it possible that it's not part of
Maxima 5.9.1? If so, is there an alternative?
>
> If you are interested in doing arithmetic directly on pole-zero expressions,
> see http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~fateman/papers/poles.pdf . I would be
> delighted to find there was a good application.
I'm afraid my applications at this moment are rather trivial, but the
article is quite interesting.
regards,
hugo