[Maxima] Strange Bug(?)

[Raymond Toy (RT/EUS)]

Stavros Macrakis wrote:
> PS I think there's a good argument to be made for having Maxima do
> something similar with inf/minf it generates, making each one
> distinct.  I know that someone (Raymond?) is also working on having
> the simplifier not do inf-inf=>0, but there are lots of places other
> than the general simplifier which need to be changed (rat
> representation, compare, etc.).

I've kind of stopped working on it.  It seems to be working, but there 
are several places in the code where inf-inf is generated and returning 
0 works but returning inf causes problems.

I believe Barton has a simplus simplifier and he's run into similar issues.

Ray