Re: Numeric warnings during symbolic manipulation
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg112804] Re: Numeric warnings during symbolic manipulation
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
- Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 05:41:16 -0400 (EDT)
On 30 Sep 2010, at 10:51, Daniel Lichtblau wrote: > Yaroslav Bulatov wrote: >> Last two expressions are equivalent. Why does the second one gives >> "N::meprec" warnings? Also, is there a good way to stop Mathematica >> from running N on my intermediate expressions? >> >> a == 2/(4 + 1/E^2 + 2 E^2 + E^6) + E^2/(4 + 1/E^2 + 2 E^2 + E^6) + >> E^6/(4 + 1/E^2 + 2 E^2 + E^6); >> b == 4/(4 + 1/E^2 + 2 E^2 + E^6) + 1/( >> E^2 (4 + 1/E^2 + 2 E^2 + E^6)) + (2 E^2)/( >> 4 + 1/E^2 + 2 E^2 + E^6) + E^6/(4 + 1/E^2 + 2 E^2 + E^6); >> Exp[Log[a/b]] >> Exp[Log[a] - Log[b]] > > There is no compelling reason for that message. There is a reason for > using numerical evaluation. In this case it is to assess imaginary part= > of the exponent, in order to reduce by an appropriate integral multiple= > of Pi. Regardless of whether one regards this as good or bad, I am not > aware of any way to prevent it. > > Daniel Lichtblau > Wolfram Research > You can avoid numerical evaluation if you hold off evaluation till the end and use Simplify like this: Simplify[Unevaluated[Exp[Log[a] - Log[b]]]] (E^2*(2 - E^2 + E^4))/(1 + 3*E^2 - E^4 + E^6) Of course that is cheating since the definitions the values of a and b are not actually substituted until the final evaluation, but still this is sometimes a useful thing to do. Andrzej Kozlowski