On 6/12/07, Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 6/10/07, Stavros Macrakis <macrakis at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> > You'd think, then, that A^^-1 would be equivalent to invert(rat(A)), and
> it
> > is to a certain extent.
>
> No, I'm pretty sure most people are going to expect that A^^-1 is
> equivalent to invert(A).
> There's nothing about ^^ that suggests CRE's are involved somehow.
>
Please don't make my statements look ridiculous by taking them out of
context. I was talking specifically about the *current system*. Of course
A^^-1 should be more sensible and support all Maxima datatypes, including
bfloats etc. As to whether it should use CREs internally, I'm not sure.
-s