Re: Problem with derivate of product
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- Subject: [mg67342] Re: [mg67309] Problem with derivate of product
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
- Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 05:14:01 -0400 (EDT)
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On 18 Jun 2006, at 09:49, Esa A E Peuha wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jun 2006, Andrzej Kozlowski wrote:
>
>> On 17 Jun 2006, at 17:36, Esa A E Peuha wrote:
>>
>>> Mathematica 5.0 seems to have trouble with parsing this input:
>>>
>>> In[1]:= D[Product[f[k,z],{k,0,m}],{z,n}]
>>>
>>> Out[1]= D[Product[f[k, z], {k, 0, m}], z]
>>>
>>> Has this been fixed in newer versions?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Esa Peuha
>>> student of mathematics at the University of Helsinki
>>> http://www.helsinki.fi/~peuha/
>>>
>>
>> No. Also, I do not think there is any plan to "fix it" because it is
>> not considered to be "broken".
>
> Do you mean that the change from "{z,n}" to "z" is what should happen
> in this case? (No, n has not been set equal to 1.)
>
No, I misunderstood you (sorry) by not looking carefully at the
output. Nothing should happen but something does, which indeed looks
like a very weird bug.
Andrzej Kozlowski
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- Problem with derivate of product
- From: Esa A E Peuha <esa.peuha@helsinki.fi>
- Problem with derivate of product