Great. Not too long ago, I wrote that none of the bugs found recently in
Maxima resulted in mathematically incorrect answers. Now you have to go
an ruin the streak.
This bug deserves *careful* consideration.
Thanks for the report.
--Jim
On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 14:36, C Y wrote:
> I've run into a problem with the Maxima integration ability. I tried
> to integrate 3^log(x), and according to both hand and mathematica
> calculations the answer should be (x*3^log(x))/(1+log(3)). Maxima,
> however, gives 3^(2*log(x))/(2*log(3)). Here is a simple test to show
> the problem:
>
> (C1) c:3^log(x);
>
> LOG(x)
> (D1) 3
> (C2) diff(integrate(c,x),x);
>
> 2 LOG(x)
> 3
> (D2) ---------
> x
>
>
> CY
>
>
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