On 2013-08-10, Jorge Barros de Abreu <ficmatin10 at gmail.com> wrote:
> In /doc/info/Polynomials.texi there is (line 1797):
>
> @code{rat ((x^2 - 1)^4/(x + 1)^2)} yields @code{(x - 1)^4 (x + 1)^2)},
>
> The last parenthesis was not opened and on maxima 5.25.1 yelds:
>
> 6 5 4 3 2
> (%o??)/R/ x - 2 x - x + 4 x - x - 2 x + 1
>
> and not yelds @code{(x - 1)^4 (x + 1)^2)} like was said in text.
The example appears in a discussion of the 'ratfac' flag. I've added a
phrase to make it clear that the example requires ratfac=true.
Also I fixed the misplaced parenthesis.
Hope this helps,
Robert Dodier