-----maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu wrote: -----
>To: maxima at math.utexas.edu
>From: David Ronis <ronis at ronispc.chem.mcgill.ca>
>Sent by: maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu
>Date: 10/22/2007 06:16PM
>Subject: Taylor Question
>
>I have a function, f(x), that when Taylor expanded around x=1 in maxima
>gives:
>
>
> 2
> M_tot N (M_tot N + 2 M_tot N) (x - 1)
>(%o7)/T/ ------- + ------------------------------
> 2 12
> 2 2
> (M_tot N + 2 M_tot N) (x - 1)
> - -------------------------------
>+ . . .
> 24
>
>Is there a flag that will simplify the coefficients of (x-1) separately.
Try things like map('factor, %) or map('ratsimp, %), or ...
BW
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