On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Kalyanramu Vemishetty
<kalyanramu at gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Maple has command "minimax" which gives minimax rational approximation.
>
> e.g., minimax(e^x, x=0..1,5).
>
> Is there a similar command or series of steps in maxima to get the same
> information?
>
>
I don't think maxima has this.
However, a while ago, I started writing one for polynomial approximation.
I think it works, even if it's not very pretty. I started hacking one for
rational approximations, but this doesn't work very well.
Ray