Rational simplification bug ("Quotient by a polynomial of higher degree" error message)

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> Thanks very much for your detailed replies.
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No problem.  If you have any further Sage-specific issues, I recommend
you continue the conversation on one of the Sage lists.  I did find
the same Maxima paste limit, which surprised me, but maybe someone
else addressed that.  I don't know a workaround.

> success with that, I would like to replicate your sage-5.4.1 platform
> as closely as possible.  Can you describe that platform in more
> detail?  For example, did you build it yourself from vanilla

Just a standard Mac build.  In fact, I think this one was the normal
10.6 binary, run on 10.7 with an Intel Core i7 chip.  It is indeed
possible that the hardware made the difference... again, asking the
Sage list at this point is perhaps appropriate.

> my hardware.  This (3-hour!) build automatically included a build of
> maxima-5.26.0. My understanding is such builds try to take advantage
> of all characteristics of your hardware to be as efficient as possible
> while the binary downloaded version of sage is more generic.

That's not an unusual build time with a lower horse machine.  I don't
know that the builds make ALL efforts, especially in Maxima.  C code
is typically more optimized with flags like -O3.

> error message, but lots of (historical) hits for this error message
> for vanilla maxima without sage.  And by attaching my detailed results
> for Residual[0] (which presumably somebody can find a way to import
> into vanilla maxima without running into the paste length limitation),
> I am hoping this thread will eventually result in a fix for maxima's
> ability to simplify expressions.

Yes, hopefully we'll be able to find a reproducible example in vanilla
Maxima, I'd love to see that copy-paste limitation worked around as
well.