Thanks - I discovered the rtest_integrate.mac file seconds after sending my
message, and as usual felt like a blank fool.
Here's an integral which Reduce can do (with its "algint" package) but
Maxima can't:
integrate(sqrt(x+sqrt(1+x^2))/x,x);
Interestingly, the result only contains elementary functions (log, atan).
cheers,
Alasdair
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:
> Alasdair McAndrew wrote:
> > I'm just enjoying testing maxima's symbolic integration strengths.
> > I've discovered that Reduce comes with a test suite of integrals taken
> > from a variety of sources, which can then be run through the system.
> > Does maxima have an integration test suite - and if so, where can I
> > find it?
> run_testsuite() runs the Maxima test suite which includes quite a few
> tests for integration, both definite and indefinite. If you have
> integrals from Reduce that maxima cannot do or does incorrectly, we'd
> love to have them.
> >
> > Also, I've just installed maxima 5.20.1 on Ubuntu, but for some reason
> > the online help doesn't work: commands like "?? int" return nothing.
> > What magic is required to get this working?
> I can't help if you got an prebuilt package, but sometimes the
> documentation is in a different package. If you built this yourself,
> then it usually means that the path to the info files is incorrect or
> that for some reason the info files were not built and installed.
>
> Ray
>
>
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