Hypergeometric rational/real discrepancy (bug?)
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- Subject: [mg34117] Hypergeometric rational/real discrepancy (bug?)
- From: Daniel Reeves <dreeves at eecs.umich.edu>
- Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 04:28:44 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Any reason why these 2 lines should produce such different results:
Hypergeometric2F1Regularized[1, m - 2, m + 1, x] /. {m -> 1, x -> 1}
Hypergeometric2F1Regularized[1, m - 2, m + 1, x] /. {m -> 1, x -> 1.}
I'm using Mathematica 4.1 -- same result on Linux, Solaris, and Windows.
Thanks!
Daniel
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