MathKernel crashes
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- Subject: [mg72798] MathKernel crashes
- From: "nandan" <joshi.nandan at gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 03:08:38 -0500 (EST)
Hallo: MathKernel crashes, since I use recursive function for calculation. I have 2 of the important functions for my calculation as given below: $RecursionLimit=Infinity; pi[0, \[Theta]_] := 0; pi[1, \[Theta]_] := 1; pi[i_, \[Theta]_]\ := pi[i, \[Theta]] = ((2 i - 1)/(i - 1)) Cos[\[Theta]] pi[i - 1, \[Theta]] - (i/(i - 1)) pi[i - 2,\[Theta]]); \[Tau][i_, \[Theta]_] := \[Tau][i, \[Theta]] = i Cos[\[Theta]] pi[i, \[Theta]] - (i + 1)pi[i - 1, \[Theta]]; In this case, I can get solution to any numerical value like pi[14, \[Pi]/3]. But quite a few times, it happened that MathKernel quitted, I started again, but it started another processor parallel to that. Later I wanted to calculate another function as follows: S1Temp[i_, \[Theta]_] := ((2 l + 1)/(l (l + 1))) (an[l] pi[l, \[Theta]] + bn[l] \[Tau][l, \[Theta]]); But in this case, whenever I try to calculate S1Temp[14, \[Pi]/3], it simply quits and, sometimes crashes. I have to always restart Mathematica to start over again. I do not know what is exactly going wrong. If any better solution is possible for this recursive solution, will also be appreciated. Regards, nandan