[Maxima] Disable simplification on input

Stavros Macrakis macrakis at alum.mit.edu
Mon Jul 23 13:52:12 CDT 2007


On 7/23/07, Barton Willis <willisb at unk.edu> wrote:
>
> ...maybe simp : false will work for you:
>

simp:false will probably work, but may have unintended side-effects.  Many
parts of Maxima depend on simp being true.  Try simp:false, diff(1/x,x) and
diff(x^-1,x) for example.  The results are I suppose correct, but I don't
think anyone really wants to see x^-1*(x^-1 * (-1) + log(x)*0 ).

          -s
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/attachments/20070723/d102c5ac/attachment.htm 


More information about the Maxima mailing list