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|    clicliclic@freenet.de to clicliclic@freenet.de    |
|    Re: fyi, new build of CAS integration te    |
|    11 Apr 17 20:51:24    |
      clicliclic@freenet.de schrieb:       >       > I believe it has been mentioned on sci.math symbolic that the       > radicands of Timofeev's examples 5.85 (#421), 5.89 - 90 (#425 - #426),       > 5.98 - 99 (#434 - #435), and 5.109 (#446) are negative for all real x.       > Timofeev may have been unaware of this because considerable work is       > involved in plotting such integrands on paper with the help of a slide       > rule. If no indication can be found in his book that such radicands       > were introduced deliberately, I won't object if a consensus emerges to       > negate these six in the Timofeev testsuite (briefly noting the what       > and why in comments), but neither am I going to push the issue.       >              I am already beginning to have doubts, or to recall old doubts.              How can an obviously experienced applied mathematician consistently       write in 5.85:               - COS(x)^2 - 5*SIN(x)^2 = 4*COS(x)^2 - 5              or in 5.98 and 5.99:               4 - 5*SEC(x)^2 = - 1 - 5*TAN(x)^2              and not realize that these radicands are negative for all real x?              Martin.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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