Thank you, this is a cool feature, you can name your expressions. It's like a math textbook with numbered equations. Pretty neat.
Rich
------------Original Message------------
From: "Ronald Modesitt" <rmodesi at msn.com>
To: "'Richard Hennessy'" <rvh2007 at comcast.net>
Cc: "'Maxima List'" <maxima at math.utexas.edu>
Date: Sat, May-10-2008 11:11 AM
Subject: RE: [Maxima] Maxima algebraic simplification
Rich,
This is very interesting to me. I did not realize that Maxima would allow an expression like the following
eq:sqrt(x)=x^2-5;
This opens new possibilities.
Ron