Okay. I am going to leave it as is. I plan to add it to pw.mac.
Thanks,
Rich
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From: "Richard Fateman" <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 2:49 PM
To: "Richard Hennessy" <rich.hennessy at verizon.net>
Cc: "Maxima List" <maxima at math.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: [Maxima] How do you write this in lisp
> On 4/5/2010 11:33 AM, Richard Hennessy wrote:
>> Maybe I was not clear enough. Here is some documentation of between.
> <snip>
> Since a lisp function would have to call Maxima repeatedly to determine
> the facts concerning ordering, using assumptions etc,
> it is not likely that this would be much faster if rewritten in lisp.
> If you want a program to run faster, you have to first see where it is
> spending most of its time, really.
>
> if you want a lisp function that works when x, a,b are all lisp
> numbers,and you know that it takes a long time as Maxima code, that
> would be a different story.
>
> RJF
>
>