Re: bug in series expansion routines.
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- Subject: [mg55255] Re: bug in series expansion routines.
- From: Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au>
- Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 03:30:47 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: The University of Western Australia
- References: <d193sk$nnb$1@smc.vnet.net>
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In article <d193sk$nnb$1 at smc.vnet.net>,
Richard Fateman <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Series[BesselJ[0, x], {x, 2.404, 10}]
>
> gives an error about illegal series composition, which
> is inappropriate, since using 2404/1000 in there
> produces a series.
>
> My guess is that this bug could be exhibited in
> many ways.
> version 5.0
No error in version 5.1. Also, since it appears that are expanding
BesselJ[0, x] about its first zero, j0, perhaps
Simplify[Series[BesselJ[0, x]/BesselJ[1, j0], {x, j0, 5}] /.
BesselJ[0, j0] -> 0]
is more useful.
Cheers,
Paul
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