Re: inconsistent refinement behavior
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- Subject: [mg131469] Re: inconsistent refinement behavior
- From: Alex Krasnov <akrasnov at cory.eecs.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 02:49:57 -0400 (EDT)
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Firstly, x==0 also implicitly assumes that x is in Reals, since 0 is in
Reals, as the following examples demonstrate:
In: Assuming[x==0, Refine[Element[x, Reals]]]
Out: True
In: Assuming[{Element[x, Reals], x==0}, Refine[Infinity/x]]
Out: ComplexInfinity
Secondly, ComplexInfinity results from the unknown sign of x at 0, not any
property of complex numbers.
Alex
On Thu, 11 Jul 2013, Helen Read wrote:
> There is nothing inconsistent about this. When you include the
> assumption x>0 or x>=0, you are implicitly assuming that x is an element
> of the Reals, so with either of these assumptions the result will be
> Infinity rather than ComplexInfinity.
>
> Recall that there is no ordering in the complex numbers.
>
> On 7/10/2013 3:22 AM, Alex Krasnov wrote:
>> The following behavior appears to be inconsistent:
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>> In: Assuming[x==0, Refine[Infinity/x]]
>> Out: ComplexInfinity
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>> In: Assuming[x>0, Refine[Infinity/x]]
>> Out: Infinity
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>> In: Assuming[x>=0, Refine[Infinity/x]]
>> Out: Infinity
>>
>> The third example should return unrefined given the first two examples. Is
>> there an explanation?
>>
>> Alex
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- Re: inconsistent refinement behavior
- From: Helen Read <readhpr@gmail.com>
- Re: inconsistent refinement behavior