-----maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu wrote: -----
>When I run to_poly() on a particular expression, to_poly() invents
>variables called %g3 and %g4, which it uses in its output - it tells
>me some inequalities constraining the carg()s of these variables,
>which amount to their real parts being non-negative, but nothing else
>about them. Any ideas what these variables mean, please?
For some expressions, it is convient to introduce additional
variables to do the conversion. So to_poly invents new variables. If
you don't like these variables, you should be able to eliminate them with
'elim'
Without the additional variables, I think to_poly would generate more
supurios solutions, I think.
>(A minor irritation from the same to_poly() command: to_poly() doesn't
>print a newline after it says "Assuming that something # 0", which
>means that, if there are fractions in the next line of output, their
>numerators are displaced horizontally from their denominators, making
>the output a little hard to read).
Maybe this has been fixed in 5.15.0. Actually, I think some of the assume
messages
aren't needed anymore.
Barton