What is your purpose in doing this calculation? Is it just to explore the
limits of Maxima on GCL? ...in which case you have discovered them... Or is
it the model for a real calculation you are trying to do? ... in which case
we might be able to help you find some other way to solve your substantive
problem.
For me, on Maxima 5.19.2/GCL 2.6.8/Windows Vista, by the way, I do get an
error message, but Maxima recovers correctly. Are you using basic Maxima,
or some GUI on top of Maxima?
-s
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 5:52 AM, gelu precup <geluprecup at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I tried these commands
>
> p1 : (1 + x + y + E)^18$
> p2 : (1 + a + b + F)^18$
> rez:length(ratexpand(p1*p2))$
>
> but Maxima does not return any result.
> The processor is active for about 40 seconds, then stops abruptly without
> any error message to display. This is normal, or is something wrong with my
> Maxima installation?
> I tried the same operations in other CAS systems. For example Reduce
> returns in about 1-2s the result of 1768900 terms, so the calculation itself
> seems to be not that heavy.
>
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