On 5/25/07, Andrej Vodopivec <andrej.vodopivec at gmail.com> wrote:
> If we want to first try symbolic integration and if that fails try
> numeric integration, I think this should be done in some other way.
> This is consistent with Mathematica. NIntegrate[...] only does numeric
> methods, N[Integrate[...]] will try symbolic methods and if that fails
> it will try numeric methods.
Tastes vary, but for me making stuff work the same as in Mathematica
is a very low priority. More to the point, the vast majority of Maxima
users have no idea how similarly-named functions work in Mathematica.
FWIW
Robert