In general, mathematical functions in Maxima should not return
non-finite thingies like INF, MINF, UND, IND, or INFINITY (complex
infinity), because other parts of Maxima don't handle them correctly.
I know this is being worked on, but as far as I know it is not done.
So you will end up with things like sin(inf)-sin(inf) "simplifying" to
0 and so on.
The consistent thing to do is to give an error as with 1/0.
-s
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:30 AM, W F <amzoti at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was curious what Mathematica would do in those cases.
> In both, it returns a quantity called "ComplexInfinity".
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> So, I would think in this case with Maxima, you'd want to be consistent and
> return the same message that csc(0) is returning or consider the above.