[Maxima] two questions: A) list length of solve result, B) 0^0

[Robert Dodier]

On 6/7/08, Stavros Macrakis <macrakis at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> I suggest you call algsys directly rather than via solve for uniform
>  result format.

Or linsolve, if the equations in question are linear.

The inconsistent return value of solve seems like a bug to me.

>  If youb want to force 0^0 to simplify to 1, I believe you can do this
>  using tellsimp, though at some cost in efficiency.

That seems to work as expected.

simp : false;
tellsimp (0^0, 1);
simp : true;
0^0;
 => 1
my_bernstein(n,k,x):=binomial(n,k)*(x+1)^k*(1-x)^(n-k);
my_bernstein(0,0,1);
 => 1

best

Robert