[Maxima] mistake in halfangles manual

[Dieter Kaiser]

Am Samstag, den 22.08.2009, 14:57 +0200 schrieb Rafał Topolnicki:
> Hi,
> 
> Example in manual/halfangles ^floor(x/(2*%pi)) is missing:
> 
> (%i4) sin(x/2),halfangles:true;
> (%o4) sqrt(1-cos(x))*(-1)^floor(x/(2*%pi))/sqrt(2)
> 
> which gives the correct plot.

Thank you very much for the hint.

The halfangles code has been updated to give more general results, but
not the manual.

By the way these are possible answers for the Sin function.

A complex variable:

(%i3) declare(z,complex)$

(%i4) sin(z/2),halfangles:true;
(%o4) sqrt(1-cos(z))*(-1)^floor('realpart(z)/(2*%pi))
                    *(1-unit_step(-'imagpart(z))
                        *((-1)^(floor('realpart(z)/(2*%pi))
                               -ceiling('realpart(z)/(2*%pi)))
                         +1))
       /sqrt(2)

A real variable:

(%i5) sin(x/2),halfangles:true;
(%o5) sqrt(1-cos(x))*(-1)^floor(x/(2*%pi))/sqrt(2)

A real variable in the intervall [0,2*%pi):

(%i8) assume(abs(x)<2*%pi)$

(%i9) sin(x/2),halfangles:true;
(%o9) sqrt(1-cos(x))/sqrt(2)

I will do my best do update the manual too.

Dieter Kaiser