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Re: Bug Report - Two numerical values for a same variable

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• Subject: [mg54439] Re: Bug Report - Two numerical values for a same variable
• From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
• Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 00:10:18 -0500 (EST)
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On 19 Feb 2005, at 20:54, Richard Fateman wrote:

> I suspect that Mathematica's routines for testing for membership in
> domains like Reals etc.  are pretty good.  I don't, however, expect it
> to understand anything. Just symbolic manipulation.  That's different.
>
Well, if you really know any people who think that computer programs 
"understand" anything than you move in curious circles. But just a 
moment, who was it who wrote:

> The fact that these are stand-ins for well-known mathematically real
> quantities is irrelevant to Mathematica, since it only understands Real,
> and Real is a subset of mathematical real.
>
Understands?

Andrzej Kozlowski

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  • Re: Bug Report - Two numerical values for a same variable
    • From: Scott Hemphill <hemphill@hemphills.net>
  • Re: Re: Bug Report - Two numerical values for a same variable
    • From: Murray Eisenberg <murray@math.umass.edu>