[Maxima] x / x --> 1

[Stavros Macrakis]

On 12/13/06, Barton Willis <willisb at unk.edu> wrote:
> I have lost the thread, but the other day there were a few messages
> about the "simplification" x / x --> 1. Setting gcd to false
> prevents Maxima from cancelling common factors in some, but not
> all expressions. For example:

The gcd variable only affects the CRE (rational functions) package,
and not the general simplifier.  There are also some places where GCDs
are invoked explicitly by other mathematical routines, e.g.

         trigreduce(sin(x)^2));
vs
         trigreduce(sin(x)^2),gcd:false;

               -s