maxima error: Quotient by a polynomial of higher degree



On 2013-12-02, Jianrong Li <lijr07 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am trying to do some computations using maxima. The following are the
> codes. There is an error: Quotient by a polynomial of higher degree when I
> am trying to compute: ratsimp(R(1,2,R(2,3, R(1,2,[c_one,c_two,c_three])))
> -R(2,3,R(1,2, R(2,3,[c_one,c_two,c_three]))));

ratsimp calls functions to compute polynomial quotients, and at some
point, one of them (for the record, PQUOTIENT or RQUOTIENT) is called
with arguments that it doesn't like, so it emits an error message.
That is a bug in ratsimp and/or whatever functions it calls. 
Unfortunately, I don't know how to work around the problem. 

If you have the time, can you please submit a bug report to:
http://sf.net/p/maxima/bugs

Sorry I can't be more helpful,

Robert Dodier