Hi all,

Sorry for the slow response. I got inundated with work and couldn't
get back to this until now.

If I'm following this correctly the state of the keepfloat environment
variable changes the results of the computation. If this variable is
kept as true, per Sage's default and for the reasons in
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/2400, something breaks. If
'keepfloat' is set to false and Maxima is allowed to approximate a
float with a rational number, the computation finishes without
throwing an error.

Is it reasonable to expect that Maxima should be able to handle
partial fractions with floats?

I'm working on downloading and compiling source codes. First time for
me for these projects. Let me know how I might be of help.

Best,

Bryan

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 3:16 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 4 lis, 08:58, Jason Grout <[email protected]> wrote:
>> That came from this:
>>
>> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/2400
>>
>> I wonder if it can just be turned off forpartialfractions, like the
>> matrix exponential command.
>>
>
> Perhaps yes, but:
>
> keepfloat:false finds approximation(!) for decimal number, for example
> radcan(0.3333333)=3333332/9999997 in Maxima with keepfloat:false
>
> So the singularities of partial fractions are shifted a bit! Is this
> what we want?
>
> Robert
>
>
> >
>

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