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answered 2014-09-26 21:15:23 +0100
FWIW, maxima does have a routine "trigrat" that simplifies the expression to 0. It just doesn't seem to be tried by default from sage at present:
sage: res = (-1/2*sin(1/16*pi)* ... sage: maxima_calculus(A).trigrat() 0