Re: What does +- mean?
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- Subject: [mg47553] Re: [mg47519] What does +- mean?
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
- Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 05:20:18 -0400 (EDT)
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On 15 Apr 2004, at 16:39, Lautaro Vergara wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have found (v. 5.0) an extrange thing: when one expands, e.g.,
>
> Series[Sqrt[-1/2+x^2],{x,0,4}]
>
> there appear a +- sign (which is correctly not present when one changes
> -1/2 by -1)
>
> is this a bug or a feature?
>
> Thanks
>
> L. Vergara
>
>
If you look at InputForm (or apply Normal) you will see these are just
minuses , in other words a +- b is just a-b. So it looks like a bug in
the way StandardForm and TraditionalForm display SeriesData objects.
Andrzej Kozlowski
Chiba, Japan
http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~akoz/
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- What does +- mean?
- From: Lautaro Vergara <lvergara@lauca.usach.cl>
- What does +- mean?