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- From: mgh3@po.cwru.edu (mike hurley)
- Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
- Subject: Re: mma big bad bug
- Followup-To: sci.math.symbolic
- Date: 5 Jan 1993 16:33:40 GMT
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- References: <15326.2b48512a@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu> <1993Jan5.145612.11165@Arco.COM>
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- In article <1993Jan5.145612.11165@Arco.COM>, jrowney@arco.com wrote:
- >
- > In article <15326.2b48512a@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu>
- > vandesande@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu writes:
- > >
- > >Here is a bizzarre mma bug. Try entering:
- > >
- > >Pi*Sqrt[Pi]/(2*3*Sqrt[2])
- > >
- > >This is very bad. If anyone knows what is going on,
- > >I would like to hear from them.
- > >
- > >Brett
- > >
- >
- > Quite bizarre -- Mathematica just seems to stop dead in its tracks!
- >
- > Mac IIfx, MMA 2.102
- >
- > John
- > jrowney@arco.com
-
- From a look at this with tracing turned on, it seems that Mma is getting
- caught in an infinite loop, changing Sqrt[(Pi^3)/8]/3 into (Pi/2)^(3/2)/3
- and then back again. I'm speculating that the first change is an attempt
- to simplify the total expression and the second is an attempt to make the
- output "prettier". Bad news. (mma 2.0 on a sparc; similar results with
- the windows version).
-
- mike hurley mgh3@po.cwru.edu
- dept of mathematics
- case western reserve univ. 44106-7058
-