Re: Bug in Coefficient[ ]
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- Subject: [mg16546] Re: [mg16283] Bug in Coefficient[ ]
- From: "Dale Horton" <daleh>
- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 04:00:19 -0500
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See http://www.wolfram.com/support/Kernel/Symbols/System/Coefficient.html I haven't tried it on your example, but I believe it will do the trick. -Dale Andrzej Kozlowski wrote in message <7c58m7$7lm at smc.vnet.net>... >Your message has lead me to discover the weirdest thing I have ever seen >since I started using Mathematica. I still can't believe my eyes when I >see it: > >In[1]:= >Coefficient[u*v^2,u*v^2] >Out[1]= >0 > >In[2]:= >Coefficient[v*u^2,v*u^2] >Out[2]= >1 > >This is not a bug, this is black magic! > > >On Sun, Mar 7, 1999, Mahoro Shimura <shimshim at mse.waseda.ac.jp> wrote: > >>Does anyone know why Coefficient[ ] does not work in >>the follwing case? >> >>In[1]:= Coefficient[x[1]*x[2]^2,x[1]*x[2]^2] >> >>Out[1]= 0 >> >>Of course, this value must be 1. >> >>(I use Matematica Ver.3.0 for SPARC.) >> >>Thanks, >>Mahoro Shimura >>e-mail:shimshim at mse.waseda.ac.jp > > >Andrzej Kozlowski >Toyama International University >JAPAN >http://sigma.tuins.ac.jp/ >http://eri2.tuins.ac.jp/ > >