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- From: pjbk@cs.hw.ac.uk (Peter JB King)
- Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
- Subject: Mathematica bug?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.124536.27674@cs.hw.ac.uk>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 12:45:36 GMT
- Sender: news@cs.hw.ac.uk (News Administrator)
- Organization: Dept of Computing & Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland
- Lines: 33
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- I have found what appears to be some form of bug in Mathematica (
- Version 2.1 for SPARC). The following program includes as part of its
- output
-
- Simplify`Gamma`Private`SimpGamma1
-
- which appears to be some sort of internal definition. I can find no
- mention of SimpGamma1 in the documentation. Intuitively, it looks like
- some sort of rule to simplify Gamma fundtions, but it does not appear to
- have any arguments. Is the answer I get correct if I replace this by
- '1'?
-
- Here is the program that demonstrates the bug.
-
- rstar[s_] := tau / (tau + s )
- rbar = 1/tau
-
- b[t_] := mu E^(-mu t )
- bstar[s_] := mu / (mu + s )
- bbar = 1/mu
-
-
- pstar[s_] := ( s + gamma ) Integrate[ E^(-(s+gamma)t) b[t] /
- (s + gamma(1 - rstar[s](1-E^(-(s+gamma)t)))), { t, 0,
- Infinity}]
- Print[pstar[s]]
-
-
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