[Maxima] Maxima 5.16.3 release --- enourmous slowdown of gf-package

[Stavros Macrakis]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com>wrote:

> in Maxima 5.15, ifactors(1) => [] (an empty list), while in 5.16,
> ifactors(1) => [[1, 1]]. (This new return value makes sense to me so I don't
> see any need to change it back.)
>

Um, perhaps because the new return value disagrees with the standard
definition of prime factor?

The standard definition excludes units because otherwise ifactors is not
unique; ifactors(2) could just as well be [[-1,24],[1,17234324],[2,1]].

This is a bug and should be fixed.

           -s
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