On 9/23/2011 5:55 AM, Karl-Dieter Crisman wrote:
> Yes, since you *are* an expert. Which reiterates my suggestion that
> radcan could have a lot more detail in its documentation (and not
> pointing to a dissertation...) +++ Thanks for all three of your
> suggestions.
Since the treatment of radicals has been (in my view) clouded by others
through using assume, domain, radexpand...
I can only state what radcan() itself does (which is written above, and
I would be happy to see added to the manual if it clarifies things!)
Radcan gets blamed for simplifications that happen before and after it
gets called, so it is sometimes difficult to debug "bug reports".
Especially from Sage, when it is not even evident that it calls radcan!
RJF