On 4/13/08, Stavros Macrakis <macrakis at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> But I'm afraid I have to agree with Harald that the syntactic solution
> is better. If the user wants to expand the contents of sin to discover
> the linear %pi term, he can always do an expand himself.... And Harald
> is right that Maxima avoids potentially very expensive operations in
> the general simplifier (consider e.g. sin((x-%pi)^500)).
Agreed, I think expand should be avoided in the core simplifier.
FWIW
Robert Dodier