Subject: Handling branch cuts for hypergeometric functions
From: James Amundson
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:10:59 -0600
I have been following this thread with interest. Since the
pro-interactive and anti-interactive arguments have been reasonably well
presented, I have stayed out of the conversation. However,...
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 21:32, Wolfgang Jenkner wrote:
> Raymond Toy writes:
>
> > Raymond> What to do?
> >
> > Nothing.
> >
> > While everyone seemed to agree we should do something and more
> > interactive queries was not really desired, no one volunteered to
> > actually make interactive queries less interactive, so I'm not going
> > to do anything about the branch cuts.
I think that would be the wrong conclusion to draw from the debate about
interactivity.
> IMHO, helping Maxima to pick the correct branch (or any other case
> where mathematical correctness is at stake) is so important that it
> should be done within the current design, which can be adjusted at
> some later point.
I agree with this wholeheartedly.
--Jim