Subject: Strange thing in Maxima: reduction of fraction
From: Raymond Toy
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 12:13:12 -0500
>>>>> "Leo" == Leo <sdl.web at gmail.com> writes:
Leo> On THU, 7 DEC 2006, Raymond Toy wrote:
Leo> [...]
Leo> Looks like a bug.
>>
>> Is it? Maxima doesn't always simplify everything that you type in.
>> Isn't %o2 correct, independent of any assumptions on p & q (except
>> that I think maxima is implicitly assuming p and q are real)?
>>
>> Ray
Leo> But what about %o1 output? Isn't that a bug?
Why? If p and q are real, isn't abs(p-q)^2 always equal to (p-q)^2?
Or do you mean that %o1 didn't simplify to something else?
Ray