Re: Problem with derivate of product
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- Subject: [mg67337] Re: [mg67309] Problem with derivate of product
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
- Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 05:13:48 -0400 (EDT)
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On 18 Jun 2006, at 10:23, Andrzej Kozlowski wrote:
>
> On 18 Jun 2006, at 09:49, Esa A E Peuha wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 17 Jun 2006, Andrzej Kozlowski wrote:
>>
>>> On 17 Jun 2006, at 17:36, 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?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Esa Peuha
>>>> student of mathematics at the University of Helsinki
>>>> http://www.helsinki.fi/~peuha/
>>>>
>>>
>>> No. Also, I do not think there is any plan to "fix it" because it is
>>> not considered to be "broken".
>>
>> Do you mean that the change from "{z,n}" to "z" is what should happen
>> in this case? (No, n has not been set equal to 1.)
>>
>
> No, I misunderstood you (sorry) by not looking carefully at the
> output. Nothing should happen but something does, which indeed
> looks like a very weird bug.
>
> Andrzej Kozlowski
No doubt this is indeed a bug and it is not fixed in v. 5.1, but on
the other hand, if you really need it for something (I am curious
what it might be) the following should work equally well:
Dt[Product[f[k, z], {k, 0, m}], {z, n}]
Dt[Product[f[k, z], {k, 0, m}], {z, n}]
Andrzej Kozlowski
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- Problem with derivate of product
- From: Esa A E Peuha <esa.peuha@helsinki.fi>
- Problem with derivate of product