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Re: How to bring up specific doc page

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• Subject: [mg114467] Re: How to bring up specific doc page
• From: Patrick Scheibe <pscheibe at trm.uni-leipzig.de>
• Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2010 21:51:11 -0500 (EST)

Hi,

> "Should"?  If I had a dime for every time that Mathematica refuses
> to do what it "should" do (based on my understanding of it), I'd
> be a lot richer than Wolfram!  :)

Let me be more specific. On MacOSX-x86-64 and Linux-x86-64 and with
Mathematica 8.0.0 this works.

Cheers
Patrick

> 
> I've learned that when working with Mathematica, one always, always,
> always has to "do the experiment".  Deductive reasoning doesn't go
> very far with it.  It is the height of irony that, despite the name
> "Mathematica", working with it remains very much an *experimental*
> science. :D 
> 
> (FWIW, the expression you posted evaluates to $Failed and beeps
> when I run it.)
> 
> ~kj
> 
>