General--Strange behavior of MathieuC
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- Subject: [mg70222] General--Strange behavior of MathieuC
- From: mjumbo at gmail.com
- Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 07:09:25 -0400 (EDT)
Hello all!
In Mathematica 5.2
Table[MathieuC[a,-1/4,Pi/4],{a,0.5,1.5,0.1}]
generates comlex numbers when 0.8<a<1.2, which seems to be a bug.
May be Mathematica uses some very unorthodox definition of this function?
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