Re: Bug in Sum causes index variable to remain set?
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- Subject: [mg33868] Re: [mg33838] Bug in Sum causes index variable to remain set?
- From: "Martin Jenkins" <lamarth at optushome.com.au>
- Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 02:50:10 -0400 (EDT)
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I'm sorry, it appears that all lines starting with "F r o m" have been
deleted from my original message. So much for copy as text+paste from
Mathematica. It should have looked more like this:
Hello, I have found what appears to be a bug in Sum in Mathematica 4.0. I
stumbled across is trying to sum an expression with subscripts. Anyway:
In[1]:= n = 1;
In[2]:= Sum[1, {f[x, 1], 1, 3}]
Out[2]= 3
In[3]:= ?f
fr In[3]:= "Global`f"
In[4]:= Sum[1, {f[x, n], 1, 3}]
Out[4]= 3
In[5]:= ?f
fr In[5]:= "Global`f"
fr In[5]:= f[x, 1] = 3
In[6]:= Clear[f];
In[7]:= Sum[1, {f[x, 1*1], 1, 3}]
Out[7]= 3
In[8]:= ?f
fr In[8]:= "Global`f"
fr In[8]:= f[x, 1] = 3
The way that f gets set by the Sum to the final value is a bug is it not? I
would guess that Sum unsets the literal expression f[x, n] or f[x, 1*1],
rather than exactly what it set in the first place. I can get around this
by f[x,n]=. whenever I use it... but I would rather not have a line with a
comment saying "Mathematica bug work-around". Integrate works fine under
similar circumstances.
Thanks,
Martin
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- Bug in Sum causes index variable to remain set?
- From: "Martin Jenkins" <lamarth@optushome.com.au>
- Bug in Sum causes index variable to remain set?