[18100] in Athena Bugs
Re: Your OLC question about "maple"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Abby Fox)
Thu Aug 3 14:29:01 2000
Message-Id: <200008031828.OAA11242@whirlwind.mit.edu>
To: olc@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, 3partysw@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[18099] in bugs", "[761] in 3partysw"
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 14:28:56 -0400
From: Abby Fox <ajfox@MIT.EDU>
>This is in response to a maple problem that one user had reported,
>which our records say you have been previously notfied about.
Indeed, I responded to this earlier (see bugs[18049]). I assumed Nick
was getting back to the user with state. Are you dealing now, or do you
want me to reply directly to the user?
Maplesoft got back to me today, for what it's worth:
>thank you for pointing this out. This is definitely incorrect (so
>called bug). I do not think there is a good advice beside, as here in
>this case we can modify this to: f:=1/((t*(s-t))^(5/2)); which produces
>different result.
>
>I will forward this to our development team for correction.
and I told Nick that if he thinks it's worth it, he could write this up
for an OLC stock answer on known Maple bugs, with interim advice being
to play with how terms with fractional powers are combined...and of
course to doublecheck results.
I've also added the suggested link to the local web page.
--Abby
