Subject: double integrals seem to give different answers
From: G. Jay Kerns
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:30:45 -0500
Dear Leo,
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 4:37 AM, Leo Butler <l.butler at ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> Just to be clear, this is not the root of the error for this integral.
> You can verify that by declaring
>
> assume(rho >= 0);
>
> and computing the two integrals.
>
> Leo
>
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Thanks for the remarks, but no, for the record, different answers are
returned (on my system, at least) even with
assume(rho >= 0);
I am running i-386 Debian sid with the below Maxima version info. I
also observe this on Ubuntu 9.10 amd64.
Regards,
Jay
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