(a-b)^odd+ (b-a)^odd --/--> 0

• Subject: (a-b)^odd+ (b-a)^odd --/--> 0
• From: Barton Willis
• Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:35:23 -0600

maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu wrote on 11/18/2010 09:03:00 AM:

> >  (%i5) factor((a-b)^10001 + (b-a)^10001 + 1);
> >  Maxima encountered a Lisp error:
> Interesting.  What version and lisp?  With the CVS version on cmucl, I
> get 1.
> 
> Ray

This happens with GCL 2.6.8; specifically

(%i2) build_info();
Maxima version: 5.22.1
Maxima build date: 11:48 8/13/2010
Host type: i686-pc-mingw32
Lisp implementation type: GNU Common Lisp (GCL)
Lisp implementation version: GCL 2.6.8
(%o2) 

--Barton

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