> -----Original Message-----
> From: maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu
> [mailto:maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu] On Behalf Of Kostas Oikonomou
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 3:35 PM
> To: Robert Dodier
> Cc: Maxima - list; Andrej Vodopivec
> Subject: Re: [Maxima] nintegrate function
>
> I don't think the point is to make Maxima behave like
> Mathematica.
> Rather, as Richard Fateman pointed out, the idea is to take
> advantage of the fact that Mathematica
> has a sophisticated and mature implementation of NIntegrate
> that can be used to draw ideas from.
>
> Kostas
Yep.
I have no problem being different from Mathematica (for example, different
bigfloat ideas).
But starting from a clean slate in the design of a numerical integration
program seems to me unnecessarily challenging. There are at least two
functioning models, in Mathematica and Maple, and maybe also Mupad and
Axiom.
RJF