Fricas was forked from Axiom, according to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_(computer_algebra_system)#History
and Axiom had the complete Risch algorithm implemented.

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 9:01 AM Thierry Dumont <tdum...@math.univ-lyon1.fr>
wrote:

> Following https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risch_algorithm ,the Risch
> algorithm is able to find an antiderivative of:
>
> x |-> x/sqrt(x^4+10*x^2-96*x-71)
>
> but not of:
>
> x |-> x/sqrt(x^4+10*x^2-96*x-72) .
>
> What can do Sage?
>
> #--------------------------------------------------------
> fok(x)=x/sqrt(x^4+10*x^2-96*x-71)
> fnot_ok(x)=x/sqrt(x^4+10*x^2-96*x-72)
> #
> algs=["maxima","sympy","fricas"]
> #
> for alg in algs:
>     print alg,integral(fok,x,algorithm=alg)
> #
> for alg in algs:
>     print alg,integral(fnot_ok,x,algorithm=alg)
> #---------------------------------------------------------
>
> For fnot_ok no primitive is found (may be an other algorithm could find
> it -it exists in terms of elliptic integrals-)
>
> For f_ok, *only*  *fricas* finds the primitive:
>
> maxima x |--> integrate(x/sqrt(x^4 + 10*x^2 - 96*x - 71), x)
> sympy x |--> integrate(x/sqrt(x^4 + 10*x^2 - 96*x - 71), x)
> fricas x |--> 1/8*log(x^8 + 20*x^6 - 128*x^5 + 54*x^4 - 1408*x^3 +
> 3124*x^2 + (x^6 + 15*x^4 - 80*x^3 + 27*x^2 - 528*x + 781)*sqrt(x^4 +
> 10*x^2 - 96*x - 71) + 10001)
>
> The wikipedia paper says that Risch algorithm was implemented in Macsyma
> (and thus I think in maxima!). So, iffricas and maxima use Risch
> algorithm, the implementation in fricas is better, or may be fricas uses
> some other method.
>
> What about maple and mathematica ? As far as I remember maple can
> integrate f_ok. I have no more access to maple to look at this :-) .
>
> t.
>
>
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