Re: Re: A harmless and amusing bug
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- Subject: [mg76338] Re: [mg76283] Re: A harmless and amusing bug
- From: DrMajorBob <drmajorbob at bigfoot.com>
- Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 02:22:39 -0400 (EDT)
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We're not supposed to copy/paste????
That's neither harmless NOR amusing.
Bobby
On Sat, 19 May 2007 03:31:09 -0500, dimitris <dimmechan at yahoo.com> wrote=
:
> I think everything is normal (or quite normal!).
>
> In[23]:=
> y = x /. DSolve[Derivative[2][x][t] + 2*Derivative[1][x][t] + x[t] ==
=
> Sin[t], x, t][[1]]
> Out[23]=
> Function[{t}, C[1]/E^t + (t*C[2])/E^t - Cos[t]/2]
>
> In[24]:=
> z = Function[{t}, C[1]/E^t + (t*C[2])/E^t - Cos[t]/2] (*pasted
> result*)
> Out[24]=
> Function[{t}, C[1]/E^t + (t*C[2])/E^t - Cos[t]/2]
>
> In[25]:=
> y === z
> Out[25]=
> False
>
> In[32]:=
> LeafCount /@ {y, z}
> Out[32]=
> {27, 29}
>
> In[33]:=
> FullForm /@ {y, z}
> Out[33]=
> {Function[List[t],Plus[Times[Power[
> E,Times[-1,
> t]],C[1]],Times[Power[E,Times[-1,t]],t,C[2]],Times[Rational[-1,2],
> Cos[t]]]],Function[List[t],Plus[Times[Power[E,Times[-1,t]],C[
> 1]],Times[Power[E,Times[-1,t]],t,C[2]],Times[-1,Times[Cos[
> t],Power[2,-1]]]]]}
>
> The two expressions have different FullForm! So SameQ results in
> False.
>
> What I don't understand however is that neither
>
> FullSimplify[y == z]
>
> nor
>
> FullSimplify[y == z, ComplexityFunction -> LeafCount]
>
> returns True as it should be! Something happens here.
>
> Anyway, what is the reason to use paste?
>
> In[34]:=
> y1 = x /. DSolve[Derivative[2][x][t] + 2*Derivative[1][x][t] + x[t] =
==
> Sin[t], x, t][[1]]
> Out[34]=
> Function[{t}, C[1]/E^t + (t*C[2])/E^t - Cos[t]/2]
>
> In[35]:=
> z1 = %
> Out[35]=
> Function[{t}, C[1]/E^t + (t*C[2])/E^t - Cos[t]/2]
>
> In[36]:=
> FullSimplify[y1 == z1]
> Out[36]=
> True
>
> In[37]:=
> y1 === z1
> Out[37]=
> True
>
> In[38]:=
> LeafCount /@ {y1, z1}
> Out[38]=
> {27, 27}
>
> Dimitris
>
>
> / Fred Simons :
>> I found this example in a very old notebook of mine and I do not
>> remember if this has already been discussed in this group.
>>
>> The following seems to be a harmless and amusing bug. It happens both=
in
>> Mathematica 5 and in Mathematica 6 under Windows.
>>
>> Execute the following command:
>>
>> y = x /. DSolve[x''[t]+ 2 x'[t]+ x[t]==Sin[t], x, t][[1]]
>>
>> Copy the result, paste it in the following command and execute.
>>
>> z =pasted result
>>
>> Obviously, y equals z. However,
>>
>> SameQ[y,z] --> False
>>
>> So here we have an example of two different Mathematica expressions w=
ith
>> the property that on level 1 all subexpressions are equal:
>>
>> And @@ Table[y[[i]] === z[[i]], {i, 0,2}] --> True
>>
>> It also is an example of two different expressions that convert to th=
e
>> same string:
>>
>> Equal[ToString /@ {y,z}] --> True
>>
>> The expression y has more leaves than can be found at level -1, and
>> anyway less than the number of leaves of the expression z:
>>
>> {LeafCount[#], Length[Level[#, {-1}, Heads->True]]}& /@ {y,z} -->
>> {{27,25},{29,29}}
>>
>> Fred Simons
>> Eindhoven University of Technology
>
>
>
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