Subject: Finding roots of sextic in radicals + Bug?
From: Barton Willis
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 21:57:29 -0600
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The user documentation (try ? factor) explains the meaning of
factor(expr,p).
>(%i1) factor(x^3+x*2, q^2-1);
>Maxima encountered a Lisp error: Error in PROGN [or a callee]: Caught
>fatal error [memory may be damaged]Automatically continuing.To reenable
>the Lisp debugger set *debugger-hook* to nil.(%i2)
>
>Is this a bug?
Maybe, maybe not; it works for me. Are you using version 5.14.0?
What happens if you try the command right after starting Maxima?
Have you have assigned a value to q?
(%i2) factor(x^3+x*2, q^2-1);
(%o2) x*(x^2+2)
(%i3) build_info();
Maxima version: 5.14.0
Maxima build date: 21:46 12/27/2007
host type: i686-pc-mingw32
lisp-implementation-type: GNU Common Lisp (GCL)
lisp-implementation-version: GCL 2.6.8
Barton