Re: Bug in Convolve, version 7
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- Subject: [mg98381] Re: Bug in Convolve, version 7
- From: "Sjoerd C. de Vries" <sjoerd.c.devries at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 05:04:04 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi Daniel,
Looks like a genuine bug. I found another one with Convolve:
Convolve[Sin[x], Cos[x], x, y]
Mathematica thinks it's 0, whereas the integral doesn't converge.
Interestingly, it doesn't report a result on the commuted version:
Convolve[Cos[x], Sin[x], x, y]
Cheers -- Sjoerd
On Apr 8, 8:48 am, dh <d... at metrohm.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> convolution is commutative, f*g == g*f.
>
> now consider the 2 calulations, where we simply exchange the first 2
>
> arguments of Convolve:
>
> f = UnitBox;
>
> Convolve[f[x1], f[x1], x1, x2]
>
> Convolve[%, f[x2], x2, x3]
>
> Convolve[%, f[x3], x3, x4]
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> Plot[%, {x4, -2, 2}]
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> f = UnitBox;
>
> Convolve[f[x1], f[x1], x1, x2]
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> Convolve[f[x2], %, x2, x3]
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> Convolve[f[x3], %, x3, x4]
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> Plot[%, {x4, -2, 2}]
>
> wheras the first calculation is correct, the second is obviously wrong.
>
> Daniel
>
> P.S. i tried this with version 7.0.1 and Windows