[Maxima] Coefficient of taylor() around inf

[Albert.Reiner at ecs.steyr.com]

The following behavior seems counterintuitive to me:

(%i130) foo: taylor(x, x, inf, -1);
(%o130)/T/                         x + . . .
(%i131) ratcoef(foo, x, 1);
(%o131)/R/                             0
(%i132) ratcoef(foo, x, -1);
(%o132)/R/                             1

I would have expected the results to be reversed.  Should I file a bug 
report,
or is this to be considered a feature?

BTW, coeff() shows the same behavior.

Best regards,

Albert.


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