On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Barton Willis <willisb at unk.edu> wrote:
> Try setting algexact to true:
>
> (%i1) sol : to_poly_solve(eq : sin(x)+cos(x)=cos(2*x),x),algexact : true$
>
>
Hmm, that flag is useful to know about. Since Sage uses Maxima mostly for
*exact* computations, being able to have more of them (however ugly) would
be useful. In what situations would algexact:true lead %solve to actually
yield worse-looking solutions? (If ever.)