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Change in Times[] behavior from Mathematica 7 to Mathematica 8

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg113960] Change in Times[] behavior from Mathematica 7 to Mathematica 8
• From: David Skulsky <edskulsky at gmail.com>
• Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 05:10:14 -0500 (EST)

While testing Mathematica 8 on some heritage code, I found a problem
which a colleague traced to a behavioral change in Times[].
Specifically, the documentation for Times[] states that "0 x evaluates
to 0, but 0.0 x is left unchanged."  This appears to be true in
Mathematica 7 but not in Mathematica 8 (at least not under Mac OS X
10.6.4).

I have informed Wolfram about this change (bug?).

Eli David Skulsky