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- From: carsten@pizza.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Carsten Schultz)
- Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
- Subject: Re: mma big bad bug
- Date: 5 Jan 1993 17:26:45 GMT
- Organization: ZRZ/TU-Berlin
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- References: <1993Jan5.145612.11165@Arco.COM>
- Reply-To: carsten@pizza.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Carsten Schultz)
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- In article <1993Jan5.145612.11165@Arco.COM> jrowney@arco.com writes:
- > 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
- >
- Let's say it like its is.
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- Mathematica 2.0 for NeXT
- Copyright 1988-91 Wolfram Research, Inc.
- -- NeXT graphics initialized --
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- In[1]:= Pi*Sqrt[Pi]/(2*3*Sqrt[2])
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- $IterationLimit::itlim: Iteration limit of 4096 exceeded.
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- 3
- Pi
- Sqrt[---]
- 8
- Out[1]= Hold[---------]
- 3
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- Same thing with Mma 2.1. Well, at least the result is correct :-)
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- Carsten
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