On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 6:29 AM, Richard Hennessy <rvh2007 at comcast.net>wrote:
> ...
I think this is right above but when the exponent is n you get an unending
> sequence of questions as long as you don't answer no to any of them.
>
It is a bug/limitation in Maxima that it asks the same even/odd question
more than once.
It is a bug/limitation in Maxima that it allows inconsistent answers to
questions.
It is a user error to answer questions inconsistently (2*n is even and 2*n+1
is even).
-s
> Is 2*n an integer?y;
> Is 2*n an even number?y;
> Is 2*n an even number?y;
> Is 2*n+1 an even number?y;
> Is 2*n+1 an even number?y;
> Is n-1 positive, negative, or zero?p;
> Is 2*n-2 an even number?y;
> Is 2*n-2 an even number?y;
> Is 2*n-1 an even number?y;
> Is 2*n-1 an even number?y;
> Is 2*n an even number?y;
> Is 2*n an even number?y;
> Is 2*n+1 an even number?y;
> Is 2*n+1 an even number?y;
> Is 2*n-1 an even number?y;
> Is 2*n-1 an even number?y;
> Is n an integer?
>