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- Subject: Re: more on mma big bad bug
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- From: a_rubin@dsg4.dse.beckman.com (Arthur Rubin)
- Date: 7 Jan 93 23:57:54 GMT
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- In <15373.2b4c73d5@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu> vandesande@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu writes:
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- >Pi Sqrt[Pi]/(2 2 Sqrt[2])
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- >The explanation for the "big bad bug" from Wolfram is that
- >the Simplification rules for Power conflict. The expression
- >is "simplified" back and forth between two different forms.
- >Will fix in another release, they say. There is no really
- >satisfactory fix.
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- There is a satisfactory fix. Wolfram just doesn't think so.
- The fix would be to set which automatic simplification is in effect with a
- global variable.
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- I preferred the Sqrt simplification in 1.2 to 2.0, anyway.
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