Re: MathKernel crashes
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg72819] Re: MathKernel crashes
- From: Jean-Marc Gulliet <jeanmarc.gulliet at gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 05:25:22 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
- References: <eosgop$9ai$1@smc.vnet.net>
nandan wrote:
> 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))
-------------------^
Extra backslash must be removed
> Cos[\[Theta]] pi[i - 1, \[Theta]] - (i/(i - 1)) pi[i - 2,\[Theta]]);
--------------------------------------------------------------------^
Extra parentheses must be removed
> \[Tau][i_, \[Theta]_] := \[Tau][i, \[Theta]] = i Cos[\[Theta]] pi[i,
> \[Theta]] - (i + 1)pi[i - 1, \[Theta]];
Here is a corrected version of the code:
In[1]:=
pi[0, θ_] = 0;
pi[1, θ_] = 1;
pi[i_, θ_] := pi[i, θ] =
((2*i - 1)/(i - 1))*Cos[θ]*pi[i - 1, θ] -
(i/(i - 1))*pi[i - 2, θ];
Ï?[i_, θ_] := Ï?[i, θ] = i*Cos[θ]*pi[i, θ] -
(i + 1)*pi[i - 1, θ];
In[5]:=
pi[14, Pi/3]
Out[5]=
30439185
--------
8388608
> 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
It would have been nice that you provided an example of such a call.
> started again, but it started another processor parallel to that. Later
Not sure to understand what you mean: if the kernel really quits, you
have no more kernel process loaded into memory.
> I wanted to calculate another function as follows:
> S1Temp[i_, \[Theta]_] := ((2 l + 1)/(l (l + 1))) (an[l] pi[l, \[Theta]]
---------^
Inconsistent syntax: i is never used in the code: do you mean l? At any
rate, this definition will cause an infinite recursion whenever it is
called. Increasing $RecursionLimit will do nothing.
> + 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.
Here is a corrected version of the code:
In[6]:=
S1Temp[l_, θ_] := ((2*l + 1)/(l*(l + 1)))*
(an[l]*pi[l, θ] + bn[l]*Ï?[l, θ]);
In[7]:=
S1Temp[14, Pi/3]
Out[7]=
29 30439185 an[14] 115937115 bn[14]
--- (--------------- - ----------------)
210 8388608 8388608
Now, the above result might or might not be what you expected since you
did not provide any definition for an[i] and bn[i]. (Are they functions
or arrays of values?)
Regards,
Jean-Marc