qbsmd <qbsmd at hotmail.com> writes:
> I've been trying to find this in a Maxima manual, but that program has
> the worst possible name for trying to search for information (please,
> please change the name to something that doesn't return results for
> Nissan vehicles and MATLAB, Octave, and Mathematica sites talking
> about local and global maxima).
When searching *within* the Maxima manual, you don't need to look for
"Maxima" any more...
> After setting a variable to something, e.g.
> a:2;
> how do you clear that value? E.g., I would expect
> clear(a);
> a;
> to return "a".
Try "kill"
> Currently, I have to close and reopen the program and rerun every
> command any time I need to do this.
Can't you just assign a different value to the symbol?
Rupert
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