program works with maxima 5.29.1 but freezes with maxima 5.30.0
Subject: program works with maxima 5.29.1 but freezes with maxima 5.30.0
From: Dmitry Shkirmanov
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 22:38:28 +0400
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> The problem isn't expand though, I wouldn't think. It's almost certainly
> operating correctly. I expect that the problem is that what you are
> expanding is huge.
>
> My *guess* is that something simplified massively when you did the big
> substitution on the previous version of Maxima
It seems that you are right. "expand(factor(test2))" returns good
answer while "expand(test2)" consumes all available memory. I just
added the "factor" command manually. Now everything works as expected,
so problem solved.
Thank you very much for help.