Thank you, Bill, for the input.  I will tuck this away for quick reference!

As it turns out, I had been using the "simplify" command (as one would with MathCad and SMath) to execute the division operations on Maxima.

So, with a quick tip from another member of the community,

divide(x^5 +3*x^4 -12*x^3 +0*x^2 +0*x +2,x^2 -3*x -1);

all now runs as expected; and returns the remainder as well.

FWIW, the "divide" command is not listed on the dropdown for Maxima in TexMacs; which is why I hadn't used it before (I assumed what went for MathCad went for most else).  Oh well...

I now wonder, is there a away of providing a fuller command set for Maxima in the TexMacs dropdown UI?

Thank you again.

This might help:

http://axiom-wiki.newsynthesis.org/TeXmacs

FriCAS is the most actively maintained fork of the original Axiom project.

I have not used TeXmacs with FriCAS recently but last time I looked
everything you need to support FriCAS in TeXmacs is in the /contrib
directory of the FriCAS distribution.

Bill Page.


On 27 April 2017 at 12:29, Marcus L. Thompson <address@hidden> wrote:

Good day.

Was interested in putting together a TeXmacs/CAS arrangement similar to the
well-known Maxima integration.  While I would appreciate being able to just
use Maxima itself, the program seems incapable of performing
quotient/remainder operations with polynomials.  This facility is critical
for my purposes; and it's quite surprising that Maxima hasn't yet
implemented such functionality.

The goal, therefore, is to have a live symbolic document computation scheme
similar to the Maxima integration; using a CAS which provides the needed
polynomial functionality.

In that spirit, I have installed Axiom for testing on my TexMacs-equipped
Ubuntu machine.  Based upon some of the program's documentation, Axiom may
have the functionality I am looking for.  However, after installing the core
Axiom components, there appears to be no way of interacting with the program
from the TexMacs UI.

Finally, Xcas does indeed support the sought-after functionality with
quorem.  From what I was able to glean, Xcas can also be run via TexMacs in
a manner similar to Maxima; but there seems to be little help getting this
type of interface together with the TexMacs GUI.

So, in a nutshell, any help getting Maxima-like UI functionality with Axiom
and Xcas (or perhaps another CAS which has quotient/remainder functionality
with polynomials) inside TexMacs would be quite well appreciated.

Thank you; and have a great day.


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