Re: [fricas-devel] Re: [Axiom-mail] InputForm

[Bill Page]

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Ralf Hemmecke wrote:
>
>> In OpenAxiom, I get
>>
>> (1) -> (x + y^2)::InputForm
>>    (1)  y^2 + x
>>                                                               Type: InputForm
>
> Cool! Was that done by a simple patch? What is the revision number?
>
> I really wonder why in FriCAS I get
>
> (^ y 2)
>
> as the result of (1) above. That clashes with the name "InputForm",
> since I cannot input that into a FriCAS session.
>

Ralf

There are a some long threads about this on the open-axiom list and
even here on FriCAS in relation to the Sage interface for FriCAS.

I also like the way it is now down in OpenAxiom better than FriCAS and
original AXIOM.

Regards,
Bill Page.