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Re: Mathematica 5: Integration bug in quadratic found by the GEMM machine

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  • Subject: [mg46934] Re: Mathematica 5: Integration bug in quadratic found by the GEMM machine
  • From: ankowar at yahoo.com (Andy Kowar)
  • Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 19:54:58 -0500 (EST)
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lalu_bhatt at yahoo.com (Bhuvanesh) wrote in message news:<c36b6v$s1m$1 at smc.vnet.net>...
> Vladimir Bondarenko <vvb at mail.strace.net> wrote:
> > $Version
> > 
> > 5.0 for Microsoft Windows (June 11, 2003)
> > 
> > Integrate[1/(-2 z^2 + 3 z - 1), {z, -1, 0}]
> > 
> > Log[3/2]     // invalid answer
> > 
> > 0.405465
> > 
> > NIntegrate[1/(-2*z^2 + 3*z - 1), {z, -1, 0}]
> > 
> > -0.405465
> 
> This is fixed in version 5.0.1.

Does Wolfram offer a patch or free upgraid to 5.0.1?

AK

> 
> In[1]:= {$Version, $ReleaseNumber}
> 
> Out[1]= {5.0 for Linux (November 18, 2003), 1}
> 
> In[2]:= Integrate[1/(-2 z^2 + 3 z - 1), {z, -1, 0}]
> 
>              3
> Out[2]= -Log[-]
>              2
> 
> In[3]:= N[%]
> 
> Out[3]= -0.405465


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