Re: Just another bug in MMA 3.0
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- Subject: [mg7469] Re: Just another bug in MMA 3.0
- From: tburton at cts.com (Tom Burton)
- Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 01:35:54 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Brahea Consulting
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
On 31 May 1997 15:52:04 -0400, in comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica you wrote:
>Series[1/(I x-p),{x,0,5}]
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>produces something like
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>-1/p + - I x/p^2 etc.
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>with lots of +- in there.
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>Actually, did anybody ever got any response by Wolfram's support? I mailed
>them a long list of bugs months ago, I never got any non-automatic answer.
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>Best regards
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>Kai Koehler
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I can't find anything wrong with Mathematica's answer. I expect a radius of convergence of Abs[p], and that's what I get. If I add a few more terms, then the resulting Normal[series] approximates the original function within a unit circle around 0.
Tom Burton