the readme for 'format' says:
* Notes by importer to Maxima:
* This package originally included a modified pois2m.lisp
* file. This file can not be included in Maxima due to
* the presence of a Macsyma Inc. copyright in the code.
* As of the inital import of the code, it does not work
* with the current Maxima.
it actually does work on some examples, crashes others, and
gives unexpected results in yet others.
regards,
praimon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barton Willis" <willisb at unk.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 12:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Maxima] poly of pow 2
> You can try the `format' package (do load(format)).
>
>
>> Is there a built in function, which does the transformation
>>
>> a*x^2+b*x+c ==> a*(x-d)^2+e ?
>>