maxima - rules and patterns



Thank you very much for your answer and thank also to Robert Dodier for 
his explanation.

I will study these topics and if I succeed, I put the result on my web 
pages for public.

Robert

Richard Fateman wrote:
>  
> First of all, let me point out that this is somewhat unnatural to do,
>  with respect to sums and products... e.g. the matching program
> generally will succeed in matching a pattern p*q  against an
> expression X  by allowing p=X and q=1.
> 
> 
> 
> For forms with a fixed number of arguments like sin, cos, etc. there is
> no problem.
>