Re: [Axiom-developer] Expression problems

2005-11-13 Thread Martin Rubey
Francois Maltey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello everybody ! Hans, Bill and others... > > > I am struggling with dealing with Expressions. For most sake and purposes I > > can find a fix and solve my small problems, but I never feel very assured. > > I have the same problem when I try to exp

Re: [Axiom-developer] Expression problems

2005-11-13 Thread Martin Rubey
Dear Hans Peter, Hans Peter Würmli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am struggling with dealing with Expressions. For most sake and purposes I > can find a fix and solve my small problems, but I never feel very assured. Yes. The EXPR domain is *not nice* > As there doesn't seem to exist a parse

Re: [Axiom-developer] Expression problems

2005-11-07 Thread Hans Peter Würmli
Thank you, Bill. > > > > if isPower(x**y) returns [x**y,1] then I would expect > > isMult(x*y) to return [x*y,1] as the power expression > > seems to be viewed as (x**y)**1, so one would > > expect the second expression to be viewed as (x*y)*1. > > I agree with you that it is a little inconsistent

RE: [Axiom-developer] Expression problems

2005-11-07 Thread Bill Page
Hans Peter, On November 7, 2005 1:28 AM you wrote: > > Thank you for the quick answer. I had hoped for a different > one. S-expressions are what I would call a parse tree, but > I feel that I have to leave thinking in Axiom and need > rethinking in Lisp. Anyway, I will try. I know what you mean

Re: [Axiom-developer] Expression problems

2005-11-07 Thread Francois Maltey
Hello everybody ! Hans, Bill and others... > I am struggling with dealing with Expressions. For most sake and purposes I > can find a fix and solve my small problems, but I never feel very assured. I have the same problem when I try to expand cos(2*x) in cos(x)^2-sin(x)^2. The expand(cos(x+y))

RE: [Axiom-developer] Expression problems

2005-11-06 Thread Bill Page
On November 6, 2005 4:20 PM Hans Peter Würmli wrote: > > I am struggling with dealing with Expressions. For most sake > and purposes I can find a fix and solve my small problems, > but I never feel very assured. > > Maybe you can give me some pointers. The question that I > originally would ha