Maxima 5.16.3 release --- enourmous slowdown of gf-package
Subject: Maxima 5.16.3 release --- enourmous slowdown of gf-package
From: Stavros Macrakis
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:43:33 -0400
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com>wrote:
> in Maxima 5.15, ifactors(1) => [] (an empty list), while in 5.16,
> ifactors(1) => [[1, 1]]. (This new return value makes sense to me so I don't
> see any need to change it back.)
>
Um, perhaps because the new return value disagrees with the standard
definition of prime factor?
The standard definition excludes units because otherwise ifactors is not
unique; ifactors(2) could just as well be [[-1,24],[1,17234324],[2,1]].
This is a bug and should be fixed.
-s