Re: computing residues
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- Subject: [mg54792] Re: computing residues
- From: "Kevin J. McCann" <kjm at KevinMcCann.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 01:26:39 -0500 (EST)
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I too am surprised that Mathematica gave you such a definite answer. The residue
of 1/Sin[z] at zero is +1 and at z=n Pi is (-1)^n; zero elsewhere.
Perhaps the rule used is that for "most" of the complex plane the
residue is zero.
Kevin
mjumbo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to compute residues of analytical function, but Mathematica's built-in function Residue produces extremely strange results. E.g.
>
> Residue[1/Sin[z], {z, w}]
>
> gives 0, I expected it produce some conditional expression, or at least to leave this expression unevaluated, but 0 is surely incorrect.
> What I am doing wrong?
>
> MJM
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