[sage-support] Re: Is it possible to disable maxima automated simplification ?

2009-06-25 Thread Nicolas
Thanks for your detailed answer ! This clarifies lots of things for me ! On 24 juin, 19:05, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Nicolasnicolas.fresseng...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, I thought this was clear. when you type sage: a=x+x+1 sage: a 2*x + 1

[sage-support] Re: Is it possible to disable maxima automated simplification ?

2009-06-24 Thread Nicolas
Sorry, I thought this was clear. when you type sage: a=x+x+1 sage: a 2*x + 1 If I understood correctly, the simplification of x+x by 2*x is done by maxima in the background. I f x is here much more complicated (or if the expression itself is complicated), the simplification process can become

[sage-support] Re: Is it possible to disable maxima automated simplification ?

2009-06-24 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Nicolasnicolas.fresseng...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, I thought this was clear. when you type sage: a=x+x+1 sage: a 2*x + 1 If I understood correctly, the simplification of x+x by 2*x is done by maxima in the background. Just to be clear, that is

[sage-support] Re: Is it possible to disable maxima automated simplification ?

2009-06-24 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Jun 24, 2009, at 10:05 AM, William Stein wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Nicolasnicolas.fresseng...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, I thought this was clear. when you type sage: a=x+x+1 sage: a 2*x + 1 If I understood correctly, the simplification of x+x by 2*x is done by

[sage-support] Re: Is it possible to disable maxima automated simplification ?

2009-06-23 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Nicolasnicolas.fresseng...@gmail.com wrote: I am in the writing of a program that deals with rather lengthy symbolic expressions involving unknown functions and differentiation. When running commands like derivatives, it seems that maxima automatically runs