Subject: When to simplify complete elliptic integrals?
From: Dieter Kaiser
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 21:30:20 +0100
Hello Ray,
I would prefer that the function can simplify itself accordingly. It seems to me
more useful to put as much knowledge about a function into the simplier as
possible.
A call to an extra function which can do a simplification only for some special
values seems to me not very efficient.
Dieter Kaiser
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Betreff: [Maxima] When to simplify complete elliptic integrals?
Just noticed that the documentation for elliptic_kc and elliptic_ec says
to use makegamma to convert these functions to gamma functions when
possible. Thus elliptic_ec(1/2) remains elliptic_ec(1/2). But call
makegamma and we get an expression involving gamma(1/4).
Is that how the simplification of elliptic_ec should be done? Should
elliptic_ec(1/2) returned the gamma expression itself?
Ray