Hello Aaron, there are different philosophies how symbolics are handled.
One goes towards structure-transformations to get a quick answer, the other
towards being more expressive about the problem itself. However, I think
maxima doesn't help you much here. I've typed up a short SymPy worksheet
that shows you a few computations. In particular, note that simplifications
of expressions are disabled and solveset "correctly" shows you that there
is no solution. In other instances, it gives you all solutions as a set.
Key elements:
sympify('x^2 / x', evaluate=False)
→ x²/x
solveset(x²/x)
→ ø
solveset(sympify('(x^3 - x^2 - 6*x) / x', evaluate=False))
→ {-2, 3} but not "0"
Worksheet:
https://cloud.sagemath.com/projects/14eed217-2d3c-4975-a381-b69edcb40e0e/files/scratch/sympy.sagews
-- Harald
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