On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Mohamed Rayes <rayes.o.mohamed at gmail.com>wrote:
> Richard Fateman <fateman <at> eecs.berkeley.edu> writes:
> > I find this pretty hard to believe... that all this is necessary.
> > Can you achieve your goal by just transmitting the string to a running
> > maxima,
> >
> > "diff(sin(x),x);"
> > and getting the answer as a string?...
>
> Calling maxima with "diff(sin(x),x);" would work, but will return
> a 2D output string which is very difficult to manipulate or process
> in java program.
>
string(diff(sin(x),x)$
or
display2d:false$
or even
?print(diff(sin(x)))$ to get the internal (Lisp-based, fully
parenthesized) format