On 3/26/06, William Sit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I vaguely remembered that Axiom does caching. So the first time the command > above is done, it gives an unsimplified answer and the second time it may be > doing the simplification using the previous answer. Simplifying radical > expresssion is expensive (I think it requires constructing towers of algebraic > extensions). The two answers are identical (on my Windows version)
The first time I tried this expression, it was the simplified answer that axiom spat out first, the more complicated answer second, which then alternated (but without any kind of regular pattern I could recognize). So it doesn't look like any kind of caching is responsible, at least in version axiom-20050201. In the 20050901 version, the behavior seems closer to what William found. Strange in deed. Igor _______________________________________________ Axiom-math mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-math
