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Hi Robert,
I have asked you about how to show all the possible answers of a function
when maxima asks questions like "is it positive, negative or zero". And you
kindly provided me the load(noninteractive) property. I found a case where
it fails. I think you would like to hear about it, so I am sending you the
case.

load(noninteractive);
(b*t)^(a*t)-a*(sum(X[i],i,1,n))^(a*t)*(sum(log(X[i]),i,1,n))*t+(sum(X[i],i,1,n))^(a*t)*sum(log(X[i]),i,1,n);
solve([%=0], [b]);

AAP...



On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 6:52 PM, ahmet alper parker <aaparker at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I only tried your example. It was a problem when I was solving ODE's and
> integrals in nonlinear vibrations/oscillations, in using perturbation and
> solving ODE's and integrals. But I could not find them now :( I was just
> wondering it would be a great property :)
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> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:40 PM, Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:57 AM, ahmet alper parker <aaparker at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> > Very good, working properly, thanks :)
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>> I'm glad to hear that. If you have a moment perhaps you can show
>> me some of the examples you have tried. So far my experience has
>> been that noninteractive works OK for many examples but there are
>> certainly some that it stumbles over (as shown by comments in the
>> list of examples in noninteractive.mac).
>>
>> best
>>
>> Robert Dodier
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