-----maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu wrote: -----
>If?we?cut?out?the?special?substitution?%i?->?-1*(-1)^(-1/2)?the?errors
>will?vanish.?The?testsuite?and?the?share-testsuite?have?no?problems.?The
>only?change?is,?that?we?no?longer?get?the?simplification?%i/sqrt(x)?->
>-1/sqrt(-x).
>
>Furthermore,?I?think?this?simplification?is?in?most?cases?not?very
>useful.
>What?do?you?think??Should?we?cut?out?this?special?case,?which?causes?in
>most?cases?wrong?results?
By itself, I don't think i/sqrt(x) -> -1/sqrt(-x) is useful. Maybe in
combination with some other term, it might be, but I doubt it. Since
the bug is not that difficult to trigger and it gives wrong results,
I suggest that you comment out the offending code and make a source
code comment about why the code was commented out.
Barton