Maple bugs: Big festal day
Vladimir Bondarenko
Dear friends, let me cordially congratulate all Maple customers as well
as the whole symbolic computation community with a big event!
As we learn from http://www.maplesoft.com/support/
MS> Maplesoft is committed to providing the highest level of support
MS> for the products it sells.
MS> Maple 9 is the premium software system for any activity that
MS> involves mathematics.
MS> Maplesoft, a division of Waterloo Maple Inc., is a leading
MS> producer of advanced software for mathematics.
We celebrate 15 years since a bug in Maple was reported *publicly* !
ftp://ftp.maplesoft.com/pub/maple/mug/Digest.1
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 89 20:34:02 +0100
From: Gerald Edgar <ed...@function.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: residues
Does anyone have some suggestions on how this problem should be done:
> u := x^3/(1-x^5): readlib(residue): residue(u,x=exp(2*PI*I/5));
0
> residue(u,x=RootOf(1+x+x^2+x^3+x^4,x));
0
> z := exp(2*Pi*I/5);
z := exp(2/5 I Pi)
> limit(u*(x-z),x=z);
0
November 28, 2004. With a big trepidation I tried this... Hurrah! Hurrah!
Three cheers and a tiger! I should not have any fears, the bug is intact!
Even a simpler example:
Maple 9.5.1> residue(1/(z-1), z= RootOf(z^2-2*z+1,z));
0
Maple 9.5.1> residue(1/(z-1), z= evalf(RootOf(z^2-2*z+1,z)));
residue(1/(z-1), z= convert(RootOf(z^2-2*z+1,z),radical));
1
1
Best wishes,
Vladimir Bondarenko
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