Re: How to treat this false singular point?
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- Subject: [mg68452] Re: How to treat this false singular point?
- From: "simon yang" <yanshanguke at 163.com>
- Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 03:46:57 -0400 (EDT)
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Bob Hanlon wrote:
> f[x_, xList_List] := Total[(x-xList)*Log[Abs[x-xList]]];
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> f[x, {x1, x2, x3}]
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> (x - x1)*Log[Abs[x - x1]] + (x - x2)*Log[Abs[x - x2]] + (x - x3)*Log[Abs[x - x3]]
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> a singularity will exist for each value of x in xList; therefor, f[xn, xList] cannot have the value 1
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> f[5. - 10^-15, Range[5]]
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> 10.2273
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> Plot[f[x,Range[5]],{x,-1,5}];
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>
> Bob Hanlon
Sorry, I had made a mistake, I mean the limit of (x-xn)Log[x-xn]==1
when x->xn and x>xn.
The f[x] is a part of another function g[x], Mathematica didn't get
this value when met x=xn which I thought it should.