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- From: steve@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (Stephen R. Czapor)
- Subject: Re: Maple problem
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.202648.27232@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca>
- Keywords: Maple bug
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- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON
- References: <1993Jan6.200956.8242@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> <19930112.153810648363.NETNEWS@ALIJKU11>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 20:26:48 GMT
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- In article <19930112.153810648363.NETNEWS@ALIJKU11> keichhor@risc.uni-linz.ac.at (Kurt Eichhorn) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan6.200956.8242@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>,
- >mefels@triples.math.mcgill.ca (Mark Fels) writes:
- > >
- > > Anyone know what's going on here...
- > >
- > > simplify(a^2*b^2,{a*b=sqrt(2),a^2=2+sqrt(2),b^2=2-sqrt(2)});
- > >
- > > 0
- >
- >Maple V Release 2 gives a different answer:
- >
- > > simplify(a^2*b^2,{a*b=sqrt(2),a^2=2+sqrt(2),b^2=2-sqrt(2)});
- > Error, (in simplify/siderels)
- > invalid side relations: Grobner basis contains the element 1
- >
- > [ rest of posting deleted ]
-
- Actually, the problem is due to a bug in `simplify/siderels`: it
- computes a Groebner basis for the side relations with respect to
- the wrong set of indeterminates, and produces a contradiction that
- was not intended. (As Kurt pointed out in his posting, from there
- anything can happen - so simplify complains in the new release.)
-
- This has been passed along to the appropriate folk(s).
-
- -------------------------
- Steve Czapor [ steve@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca ]
- Dept. of Math. & C.S., Laurentian University
-