Re: DSolve bug
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- Subject: [mg97808] Re: DSolve bug
- From: "Sjoerd C. de Vries" <sjoerd.c.devries at gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 05:48:18 -0500 (EST)
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Hi Sotirios, Why do you think it's a bug. C[1][z][x] is a perfectly legitimite way to type a function of two variables. Look here: In[64]:= f[x_][y_][z_] := x^y^z In[65]:= f[a][b][c] Out[65]= a^b^c Checking the solution: In[63]:= D[C[1][z][x] + C[2][z][y], x, y] Out[63]= 0 No problemo. Cheers -- Sjoerd On Mar 21, 12:16 pm, Sotirios Bonanos <sbon... at inp.demokritos.gr> wrote: > Hello, > > I have encountered the following bug in DSolve: > > DSolve[D[F[x, y, z], x, y] == 0, F[x, y, z], {x, y, z}] > > gives {{F[x, y, z] -> C[1][z][x] + C[2][z][y]}} > > instead of {{F[x, y, z] -> C[1][x, z] + C[2][y, z]}} > > I don't know if this has been fixed in Mathematica 7, but it is present i= n versions 5 and 6. > > S. Bonanoshttp://www.inp.demokritos.gr/~sbonano/