On Aug 21, 9:09 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Use the assume command, as illustrated below. You'll eventually get log(2): Looks like this is fixed in more recent versions of Maxima. With current 5.16.2: limit (log (2 + sqrt (atan (x) * sin (1/x))), x, 0); => log(2) (No questions asked.) We can probably thank Dan Gildea for this, as he has done a lot of extremely valuable bug-fixing work on Maxima. FWIW Robert Dodier --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---