Bug report ID 2123651 "min and max of imaginary and real numbers"
Subject: Bug report ID 2123651 "min and max of imaginary and real numbers"
From: Barton Willis
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 15:34:14 -0500
When a is on the imaginary axis, max(%i*a,3) is just fine. So a nounform is OK.
(%i3) max(%i*a, 3);
(%o3) max(3,%i*a)
Not useful or informative:
(%i4) compare(%i*a,3);
(%o4) notcomparable
Maybe compare shouldn't be a user-level function (private to simp-max and simp-min).
--bw