Re: [Maxima-discuss] Expand returns an unsimplified result?

[Stavros M. <mac...@gm...>]

5.46 also fixes this.

Re "The user documentation doesn't say that the result of *expand* is
simplified by the general simplifier" -- *expand *actually works *within*
the general simplifier -- it binds *expon/expop *to enable the simplifications
expanding multiplication and integer powers.

On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 10:55 AM Barton Willis via Maxima-discuss <
max...@li...> wrote:

> The user documentation doesn't say that the result of expand​ is
> simplified by the general simplifer, but surely it should be? Here is an
> example of when expand returns a unsimplified rational number.
>
> (%i7) expand(3/((2^(1/3)+1)^2*(2^(2/3)-2^(1/3)+1)^2));
> (%o7) 3/9
>
> I discovered this when I was preparing for class and looking for the
> horizontal tangents of a folium of Descartes.
>
> --Barton
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