Hi,
I was curious what Mathematica would do in those cases.
In both, it returns a quantity called "ComplexInfinity".
This means the following: "ComplexInfinity represents a quantity with
infinite magnitude, but
undetermined complex phase."
See: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ComplexInfinity.html
Just thought I'd throw this out there.
So, I would think in this case with Maxima, you'd want to be consistent and
return the same message that csc(0) is returning or consider the above.
~A
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 6:30 AM, Raymond Toy <raymond.toy at ericsson.com>wrote:
>
> This is related to the thread about tan(pi/2) unevaluated in the
> result of some integral.
>
> What should maxima do with tan(%pi/2)? Currently, it does nothing.
> No error, no infinity. What should it do?
>
> Compare this with csc(0), which throws an error about 0 not being in
> the domain.
>
> When that is answered, I think we can fix the original integral
> "correctly".
>
> Ray
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