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Undiscovered Bug?

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• Subject: [mg46862] Undiscovered Bug?
• From: Harold.Noffke at wpafb.af.mil (Harold Noffke)
• Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 02:02:46 -0500 (EST)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

MathGroup:

In Mathematica 5.0.1 with Windows 2000, I mistakenly used the [[{}]]
operator on x/y.  I was expecting an error, but I kept getting unusual
results as shown in In/Out's 2 to 5 below.

Have I stumbled on a bug, or is there a way to make sense out of this?


In[1]:= TreeForm[x/y]

Out[1]//TreeForm= Times[x, |           ]
                           Power[y, -1]

In[2]:= (x/y)[[{2,2}]]


Out[2]=  -2
        y

In[3]:= (x/y)[[{1,2,1}]]

         2
        x
Out[3]= --
        y

In[4]:= (x/y)[[{2, 2, 2, 2}]]

         -4
Out[4]= y

In[5]:= (x/y)[[{2, 1, 1, 0, 2, 2, 0}]]

             2  2
        Times  x
Out[5]= ---------
            3
           y
		   
		   
Regards,
Harold

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