Re: Problem with derivate of product
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- Subject: [mg67315] Re: Problem with derivate of product
- From: Jean-Marc Gulliet <jeanmarc.gulliet at gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 05:13:00 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
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Esa A E Peuha wrote: > Mathematica 5.0 seems to have trouble with parsing this input: > > In[1]:= D[Product[f[k,z],{k,0,m}],{z,n}] > > Out[1]= D[Product[f[k, z], {k, 0, m}], z] > > Has this been fixed in newer versions? > What output do you expect? Since f is not defined, the product is returned unevaluated: In[2]:= Product[f[k, z], {k, 0, m}] Out[2]= Product[f[k, z], {k, 0, m}] Compare with In[5]:= f[a_, b_] := b*Cos[a] In[6]:= Product[f[k, z], {k, 0, 2}] Out[6]= 3 z Cos[1] Cos[2] In[7]:= D[Product[f[k, z], {k, 0, 2}], {z, 1}] Out[7]= 2 3 z Cos[1] Cos[2] HTH, Jean-Marc