Re: Taylor expansion of Jacobi's elliptic functions
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- Subject: [mg105940] Re: Taylor expansion of Jacobi's elliptic functions
- From: Emu <samuel.thomas.blake at gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 02:24:56 -0500 (EST)
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On Dec 27, 11:09 am, did <didier.o... at hotmail.com> wrote: > With Mathematica 7 on Mac OS X Leopard > > In[1]:= Table[Series[JacobiDN[x, m], {x, 0, n}], {n, 0, 4}]] > > Out[1]= {SeriesData[x, 0, {EllipticDump`JacobiSum}, 0, 1, 1], > SeriesData[ > x, 0, {EllipticDump`JacobiSum}, 0, 2, 1], SeriesData[ > x, 0, {1, 0, Rational[-1, 2] m}, 0, 3, 1], SeriesData[ > x, 0, {1, 0, Rational[-1, 2] m}, 0, 4, 1], SeriesData[ > x, 0, {1, 0, Rational[-1, 2] m, 0, Rational[1, 24] (4 m + m^2)}, 0, > 5, 1]} > > Why Mathematica can't give a meaningfull answer for n=0 and n=1, but = can for > n>1? > (Same problem with JacobiSN and JacobiCN) Here's the result from version 5.2 In[4]:=$Version Out[4]="5.2 for Mac OS X x86 (32-bit) (February 24, 2006)" In[3]:=Table[Series[JacobiDN[x, m], {x, 0, n}], {n, 0, 4}] Out[3]={1, 1, SeriesData[x, 0, {1, 0, -m/2}, 0, 3, 1], SeriesData[x, 0, {1, 0, -m/2}, 0, 4, 1], SeriesData[x, 0, {1, 0, -m/2, 0, m/6 + m^2/24}, 0, 5, 1]}