Maxima Manual - Example Page 15 - different result for ''sin(1);
Subject: Maxima Manual - Example Page 15 - different result for ''sin(1);
From: Robert Dodier
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:00:30 -0700
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Richard Fateman
<fateman at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> The result sin(1) is correct. I just looked at the manual, and the
> example is wrong.
It was correct until quite recently: verbification of trig functions
caused numerical evaluation.
> It is pretty useless to write ''sin(1).
The point of a reference manual is to describe what the program DOES.
Whether it's useful or not is for someone else to figure out.
The feature in question is the verbification of nouns via quote-quote.
If you believe that can never be useful, feel free to promote
the idea of cutting it out.
Robert Dodier