Am Sonntag, den 30.08.2009, 17:25 +0200 schrieb Stefano Ferri:
> Thank you for the explanation. I missed the related discussion on the
> mailing list. I had no idea that the old behaviour could cause such
> problems.
>
> Anyway, given, for example, 2^(5/2), is there the possibility to let
> Maxima rewrite it to 4*sqrt(2) or, as I can imagine, Maxima
> automatically doesn't allow this?
> Mine was simply an "aesthetic" issue, because I would like to see some
> final results of the computation in the form something*sqrt(something
> else), with integer powers separeted form fractional ones. But it's
> not a problem!
Sorry, but now there is no way to display the internal representation
2^(3/2) as 2*sqrt(2).
The display package has special code to display the internal
representation x^(1/2) as sqrt(x).
I am wondering if we can extend the display package to display e.g.
2^(3/2) as 2*sqrt(2) accordingly.
Dieter Kaiser