Re: Phasors, complex, polar in maxima

"Jens Axel Søgaard" <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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djlogan2 wrote:

> A reference manual is supposed to brief.

Missing examples seems to be a typical mistake that help document writers
make. Many-many man and info pages have long passages describing different
options and with no examples.

> The idea is that the Maxima book should contain more elaborate
> explanations and examples, but the chapter on matrices is not
> written yet:

Maxima primer seems to be a good place to start. In particular, it contains
a determinant example,

determinant(matrix([1,2],[3,4]));

Alec


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