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RE: A formalism for discontinuities of fucntions ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Apr 1 11:27:37 1992
To: msug@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 92 11:26:38 EST
From: Reid M. Pinchback <reidmp@Athena.MIT.EDU>
>The one trick that ALJABR can also do is to find "Principal Value"
>integrals.
>This is doen by looking for poles, dividing the integral in to regions
>around the poles and examining the limiting behavior of the sum of the
>integrals of the segments.
>
>Jim
I guess different places have different terminology... we all inherit
the vocabulary of our math profs. I haven't run into "poles" before.
I take it a pole is a discontinuity where the left and/or right hand
limits are unbounded?
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Reid M. Pinchback
Faculty Liaison
Academic Computing Services, MIT
