These kind of errors are why I am trying to not use Windows.
Rich
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From: "Stanislav Maslovski" <stanislav.maslovski at gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2010 6:08 AM
To: <maxima at math.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: [Maxima] [newbie] Polynomial multiplication question
> On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 02:52:41AM -0800, gelu precup 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 guess you know that $ at the end of a line supresses the output?
>
>> 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.
>
> On my machine when trying your code I get
>
> Maxima encountered a Lisp error:
>
> Error in PROGN [or a callee]: The storage for CONS is exhausted.
> Currently, 89965 pages are allocated.
> Use ALLOCATE to expand the space.
>
> It is from
> Maxima 5.20.1 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
> using Lisp GNU Common Lisp (GCL) GCL 2.6.7 (a.k.a. GCL)
>
> --
> Stanislav
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