Maxima 5.14.0 change log Compiled 2007-12-15 Backwards-incompatible changes: * Maxima strings are now Lisp strings (not Lisp symbols) * Change name of quotient operator from "//" to "/" * Regularize return values of dgeev and dgesvd in lapack New items in share: * share/contrib/gf: Galois fields * share/contrib/fourier_elim: solve inequalities via Fourier elimination * share/contrib/fresnel: Fresnel integrals * share/contrib/unwind_protect: programming construct to catch errors * share/draw/implicit3d: implicit surfaces by the marching cubes algorithm Other revisions: * Bigfloat %pi via Chudnovsky series and %e via modified Taylor series * share/contrib/sarag: new version * share/contrib/ezunits: units conversion capability * share/contrib/numericalio: partial reads, binary float input * share/matrix/eigen.mac: gramschmidt accepts optional inner product * share/numeric/romberg: evaluate arguments as an ordinary function * share/draw: enhancements * Bug fixes and updates in differential equations * share/tensor/ctensor: nonsymmetric metrics * Minor bug fixes in TeX output * Minor enhancements in Maxima->Lisp translation * Category system in English-language html documentation * Additional documentation * Russian translation of reference manual in progress * Various unnumbered bug fixes Bug fixes not otherwise mentioned: * 1834217: limit w.r.t. subscripted variable => internal error * 1827488: Not assuming not equal to * 1805179: fatal error: Integral calculation failure * 1778796: integrate( (x^3+1)/(x^4 + 4*x + 1), 0, 1) * 1764114: signum misses simp rule * 1707955: transpose noun / verb confusion * 1704583: problem with limit at zero different from each side * 1687332: pochhammer of bfloat * 1682435: taylor of rat(factor(1+x)) gives internal error * 1665657: limit fails to find easy limit * 1659946: Lisp error on solve * 1654602: limit(%e^b*erf(x),x,inf) asks sign(b) * 1650226: Bind stack overflow for factor 7th degree * 1641062: limit allows non-symbol variable and gives nonsense results * 1606731: limit of algebraic when algebraic : true * 1606304: limit with subscripted variable error * 1594977: limit(n/(n^2+1), n, -inf) * 1528607: limit(a^x,x,inf) can't solve for a : abs(a) < 1 * 1498047: limit(1/x, x, -infinity) * 1479409: Maxima thinks pochhammer is real * 1203443: taylor about minf * 1042244: gfactor(a^4+b^4) fatal error * 923407: limit(atan(sqrt(x))/sqrt(x),x,0) wrong * 792862: factor(r^2-3*r+3,a^3+1) fatal error * 701628: taylor(x^2,x,minf,2) -- wrong sign * 696818: Taylor internal error (rat problem?) * 696804: factor FAILS on polynomial !!! * 681191: gfactor(x^4-y^4); crashes * 663873: taylor / fixes