#8459: broken translatin of polylog from Maxima
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   Reporter:  robert.marik  |       Owner:  burcin      
       Type:  defect        |      Status:  needs_review
   Priority:  major         |   Milestone:              
  Component:  symbolics     |    Keywords:  symbolics   
     Author:                |    Upstream:  N/A         
   Reviewer:                |      Merged:              
Work_issues:                |  
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Comment(by robert.marik):

 And anther issue which I do not understand:
 {{{
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 | Sage Version 4.3.3, Release Date: 2010-02-21                       |
 | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information.        |
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 Loading Sage library. Current Mercurial branch is: polylog
 sage: g(x)=integrate(ln(1-x^2)/x,x)
 sage: g(1/2).n()
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 TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call
 last)

 /opt/sage-4.3.3/<ipython console> in <module>()

 /opt/sage-4.3.3/local/lib/python2.6/site-
 packages/sage/symbolic/expression.so in
 sage.symbolic.expression.Expression.n
 (sage/symbolic/expression.cpp:17036)()

 TypeError: cannot evaluate symbolic expresssion numerically
 sage: g(x)=eval(preparse(integrate(ln(1-x^2)/x,x)._repr_()))
 sage: g(1/2).n()
 0.688640713882747
 sage: g
 x |--> log(-x^2 + 1)*log(x) + 1/2*polylog(2, -x^2 + 1)
 sage:
 }}}
 why are eval and _repr_ necessary?

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