Subject: Finding roots of sextic in radicals + Bug?
From: Stavros Macrakis
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 15:33:44 -0500
On Feb 2, 2008 11:30 PM, Ismael Garrido <ismaelgf at adinet.com.uy> wrote:
> >> (%i1) factor(x^3+x*2, q^2-1);
>
The second argument must be irreducible over the rationals (otherwise q is
not well-defined).
> >> Maxima encountered a Lisp error: Error in PROGN [or a callee]
> >> Is this a bug?
>
It is a bug that it is not giving a useful error message but instead
returning an internal error. I believe this has been fixed in version 5.14.
-s