Re: Mathematica bug??
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- Subject: [mg100552] Re: [mg100540] Mathematica bug??
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 02:04:06 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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First, you should be very cautious about categorically, and so
dramatically, entitling a post as "Mathematica bug".
Second, such a title is so general as to be unhelpful to potential readers.
Third, you don't say which version of Mathematica you're using. I tried
this in Mathematica 7.0.1 and got the correct inverse:
{{Sqrt[1 - 2/r], 0, 0, 0}, {0, 1/Sqrt[1 - 2/r], 0, 0}, {0, 0, r,
0}, {0, 0, 0, r Sin[\[Theta]]}} // Inverse // InputForm
{{1/Sqrt[1 - 2/r], 0, 0, 0}, {0, Sqrt[1 - 2/r], 0, 0},
{0, 0, r^(-1), 0}, {0, 0, 0, Csc[\[Theta]]/r}}
But then I also tried it in Mathematica 5.2, and still I got the correct
inverse.
I suspect you had already assigned a value to r or Theta somewhere
earlier in the evaluation steps. Or else just mistyped something.
oshaughn wrote:
> {{Sqrt[1 - 2/r], 0, 0, 0}, {0, 1/Sqrt[1 - 2/r], 0, 0}, {0, 0, r,
> 0}, {0, 0, 0, r Sin[\[Theta]]}} // Inverse
>
> gives
>
> {{0, 0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 1/r, 0}, {0, 0, 0, Csc[\[Theta]]/
> r}}
>
> with no warnings. This is a *diagonal* matrix that should be
> trivially invertible.
>
> Does anyone know why Inverse has catastrophically failed here?
>
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- Mathematica bug??