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Re: Question on Rescale[]

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  • Subject: [mg103320] Re: [mg103296] Question on Rescale[]
  • From: DrMajorBob <btreat1 at austin.rr.com>
  • Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:25:25 -0400 (EDT)
  • References: <200909141110.HAA08833@smc.vnet.net>
  • Reply-to: drmajorbob at yahoo.com

What did you expect?

Bobby

On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:10:05 -0500, Alexey <lehin.p at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> Consider the following:
>
> In[1]:= r=Rescale[x,{min,max}]
> Rescale[2,{-Infinity,Infinity}]
> r/.{x->2,min->-Infinity,max->Infinity}
> Out[1]= -(min/(max-min))+x/(max-min)
> Out[2]= 1/Sqrt[2]
> During evaluation of In[1]:= \[Infinity]::indet: Indeterminate
> expression 0 (-\[Infinity]) encountered. >>
> Out[3]= Indeterminate
>
> At this moment I can not imagine why Rescale[2,{-Infinity,Infinity}]
> gives 1/Sqrt[2]. Is this behavior correct?
>


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