How to define a Function in Maxima

• Subject: How to define a Function in Maxima
• From: Robert Dodier
• Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 14:18:45 -0600

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Jaime Villate <villate at fe.up.pt> wrote:

> f(x,y) := if (y # -x^2) then x*y/(x^2+y) else 0;

Better to write

  if not equal(y, -x^2) then ...

here, since "#" is a syntactic comparison only.

best

Robert Dodier

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