William Stein wrote:
> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Robert Bradshaw
> <rober...@math.washington.edu> wrote:
>> On May 7, 2009, at 4:10 AM, Mike Hansen wrote:
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I've been doing a lot of work recent trying to get the new symbolics
>>> ready for Sage 4.0.  With 4.0 due out in 8 days, we're trying to do
>>> the final push.
>>>
>>> There are currently a lot of printing errors since Pynac/GiNaC prints
>>> expressions differently than Maxima does.  Some things still need
>>> doctests, and there are a few small features left to implement.  If
>>> you have some free time in the next few days and want to help out,
>>> it'd be greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> If you want to try the code out, there is an spkg and two patches in
>>> http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mhansen/symbolics/.  These should
>>> install and apply cleanly to Sage 3.4.2.
>>>
>>> I'll try to be around in IRC most of the day tomorrow. Sometime during
>>> the day or evening, we'll set up a public notebook for people to try
>>> things out and try to break things.
>> I just noticed
>>
>> sage: sqrt(x)^2
>>  x
>>
>> sage: sqrt(2)^2
>>  sqrt(2)^2
>>
> 
> OK, that's definitely a bug.  By the way, testing this in Ginac
> directly is useful, which anybody can do by typing ginsh on sage.math:
> 
> wst...@sage:~$ ginsh
> ginsh - GiNaC Interactive Shell (ginac V1.4.1)
> ...
>> sqrt(2)^2;
> 2
> 
> I've added this to the wiki.


It might be useful, if possible, to make sage -ginsh launch ginsh, or 
something similar.

Jason


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