Re: Re: Re: DSolve and N do not commute
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- Subject: [mg40254] Re: [mg40242] Re: [mg40213] Re: [mg40184] DSolve and N do not commute
- From: Dr Bob <majort at cox-internet.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 04:30:22 -0500 (EST)
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The bug is there in version 4.2.1 (for Windows).
Bobby
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 06:51:02 -0500 (EST), Selwyn Hollis
<selwynh at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Very strange... No such "bug" in Version 4.1.5 for Mac OS X:
>
> eq := (f''[r] + 8 2^(2/3)/3 f'[r] == -8 2^(1/3)/3 f[r])
>
> DSolve[eq, f[r], r]
>
> {{f[r] -> C[1]/E^((2/3)*2^(2/3)*r) + C[2]/E^(2*2^(2/3)*r)}}
>
> DSolve[N[eq], f[r], r]
>
> {{f[r] -> C[1]/E^(3.1748*r) + C[2]/E^(1.05827*r)}}
>
> -----
> Selwyn Hollis
> http://www.math.armstrong.edu/faculty/hollis
>
>
> On Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at 02:42 AM, Dr Bob wrote:
>
>> It's a bug. Here's the general solution:
>>
>> <snip>
>
>> On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 03:04:52 -0500 (EST), arkadas ozakin
>> <arkadaso at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Take the following differential equation,
>>>
>>> eq = (f''[r] + 8 2^(2/3)/3 f'[r] == -8 2^(1/3)/3 f[r])
>>>
>>> DSolve[eq, f[r], r] gives something like
>>>
>>> f[r] -> C[1] Exp[k1 r] + C[2] Exp[k2 r]
>>>
>>> where k1 and k2 are two different numbers.
>>>
>>> However,
>>>
>>> DSolve[N[eq],f[r],r] gives something like
>>>
>>> f[r] -> (C[1] + C[2] r) Exp[k2num r]
>>>
>>> where k2num is the numerical version of the constant k2 above.
>>>
>>> I don't know how DSolve handles numerical constants, but the
>>> discrepancy between the two results wasn't something I expected
>>> (that's why it took me quite a bit of time to figure out what was
>>> going wrong in my longish Mathematica notebook...)
>>>
>>> Does anyone know why this happened? Is this a bug, or am I doing
>>> something wrong? Any suggestions for avoiding similar things in the
>>> future?
>>>
>>> arkadas
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -- majort at cox-internet.com
>> Bobby R. Treat
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Bobby R. Treat
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- From: Selwyn Hollis <selwynh@earthlink.net>
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