Re: Symbolic expand function doesn't always do anything

[Jonathan Stickel]

Have you considered using a true CAS, e.g. Maxima?  Or do you interface
your symbolic results with octave numerics?

Jonathan


edA-qa mort-ora-y wrote:
> Benjamin Sapp wrote:
>
> > 1.   You can perform your example from ginsh in octave by surrounding
> > each exact number with quotes and vpa().  For example on my computer:  
> > octave:47> expand( (x-vpa("1"))^vpa("3"))
>
>
> I suspected as much it was a problem with not inretrepting the integers 
> as integers, but I couldn't find any function that would give me an 
> integer.
>
> Okay, I'll try this, or the gino approach and see which is more 
> cumbersome.  My problem is obviously that I'm using a variable for the 
> exponent x^k, but k is for sure an integer value.



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