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Re: Chop in Mathematica 8.0.1

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  • Subject: [mg117527] Re: Chop in Mathematica 8.0.1
  • From: Virgil Stokes <vs at it.uu.se>
  • Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 05:04:50 -0500 (EST)

On 21-Mar-2011 12:18, Andrzej Kozlowski wrote:
> Chop does not seem to work properly in Mathematica 8.0.1:
>
> f[a_] := 2 I Pi Sin[a]/a
>
> In[2]:= f[1.]
>
> Out[2]= 0. + 5.287118128162912*I
>
> In[3]:= Chop[%]
>
> Out[3]= 0. + 5.287118128162912*I
>
> This is with
>
> In[4]:= $Version
>
> Out[4]= 8.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) (February 23, 2011)
>
>   Mathematica 7.01 returns 5.287118128162912*I as expected.
>
> Can anyone confirm it? At the moment I can't see any simple work around...
>
> Andrzej Kozlowski
>
I can confirm this for vers. 8.0.1.0 and vers. 7.0.1.0.
On a windows Vista 32-bit platform the Chop leaves 0. for the Real part in vers. 
8.0.1.0 but not for vers. 7.0.1.0 --- as shown in the Andrzej's code.

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