how to convince Maxima to carry out complex arithmetic



Robert Dodier wrote:


 try algebraic:true.
then rat(1/(1+%i))  comes out as -(%i-1)/2
> (%i9) rat (1/(1 + %i));
>                                       1
> (%o9)/R/                            ------
>                                     %i + 1
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