Subject: Slightly OT: student usage of Maxima vs Maple
From: Jaime Villate
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 23:50:38 +0100
On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 16:34 -0400, Stavros Macrakis wrote:
> > http://beige.ucs.indiana.edu/P573/node11.html
>
> Thanks for pointing to this resource.
> He points out some weaknesses in Maxima which we ought to address,
> e.g. some of the difficulties in manipulating sums.
That's a nice review but Maxima has changed a lot in the 7 years since
it was written; for instance, factor now works for integers. On the
other hand, the quoted version of the product:
'product(i+3,i,0,10);
is no longer working (it is evaluated).
Regards,
Jaime