Declaration
linear
One of Maxima's operator properties. For univariate f
so
declared, "expansion" f(x + y)
yields f(x) + f(y)
,
f(a*x)
yields a*f(x)
takes
place where a
is a "constant". For functions of two or more arguments,
"linearity" is defined to be as in the case of sum
or integrate
,
i.e., f (a*x + b, x)
yields a*f(x,x) + b*f(1,x)
for a
and b
free of x
.