On Feb 7, 5:05 am, Clemens Heuberger <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I encountered the following bug:
>
> sage: abs(pi*I)
> I*pi
>
> The correct answer would have been pi.
>
> Several other examples show a different behaviour, e.g.
>
> sage: abs(log(2)*I)
> abs(I*log(2))
>
> Here, the answer is correct (but not particularly helpful, log(2)
> would have been better).
>
> I do not know whether this is related to
>    http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7557

For the record, various bugs fixes and improvements have
been made in Maxima's abs function recently.
It might be worth the trouble to review ticket 7557
and any similar items with the most recent version
of Maxima (5.23).

HTH

Robert Dodier

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