On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Martin Rubey
<martin.ru...@math.uni-hannover.de> wrote:
> Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> writes:
>
>> 3. Use an alternative system for evaluating the integral, like sympy or
>> mathematica_free
>
> ceterum censeo:
>
> sage: fricas.integrate('sec(t)*tan(t)','t=0..%pi/3','"noPole"')
> 1
>
>
> the noPole argument instructs FriCAS to ignore possible poles that the
> integral without limits could have:
>
> sage: fricas.integrate('sec(t)*tan(t)','t')
>
>  cos(t) + 1
>  ----------
>    cos(t)
>
> I admit however, that calling FriCAS from sage is very awkward, since
> the interface is absolutely dumb.

Could you please give constructive criticism instead?    I for one
appreciate the work Bill Page did at Sage Days 2 to write an axiom
interface.   I think enumerating some specific criticism of it would
be more useful.      If you've already done so, maybe you could post a
link?

William

>
> I think that's a shame, because FriCAS is quite good at differential
> algebra.
>
> Martin
>
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