I tried the first example below in sage. It failed , complaining that maxima wanted to know whether x was positive, negative or 0. Hence, I tried maxima via "sage -maxima". To my surprise, maxima computed the limit without asking for extra information. Is the maxima that gets called from sage put in a more inquisitive mode?
I figure this might be a symptom of a sub-optimal interaction between sage and maxima and hence might have some interest to developers. /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// %sage var('p x') limit((p+1)/pi*(1-x^2/4)/((sqrt(p)+sqrt(1/p))^2-x^2),p=oo) //complains that maxima wants extra information //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// %maxima f(p,x):=(p+1)/pi*(1-x^2/4)/((sqrt(p)+sqrt(1/p))^2-x^2); limit(f(p,x),p, infinity); //works --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---