Arnold,

OpenAxiom is a fork of the Axiom project. The OpenAxiom mailing list
is open-axiom-devel@lists.sourceforge.net If you are using OpenAxiom
you might expect to get more specific answers there.

Regards,
Bill Page.



On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 4:20 AM, Arnold Doray wrote:
> I'm trying to create a set of orthogonal polynomials using the
> Gram-Schmidt process, but I hit a problem:
>
> dot(f,g) == integrate(f*g*x^2,x=-1..1)
> proj(f,g) == dot(f,g)*f/dot(f,f)
>
> p0 := 1
> p1 := x - proj(p0,x)
> p2 := x^2 - proj(p0,x^2) - proj(p1,x^2)
>
> p0 and p1 evaluate correctly, but p2 hits this error:
>
> ; (DEFUN |*2;dot;5;frame1394| ...) is being compiled.
> ;; The variable |*2;dot;5;frame1394;MV| is undefined.
> ;; The compiler will assume this variable is a global.
>   Internal Error
>   The function coerce with signature OrderedCompletion Integer ->
>      Expression OrderedCompletion Integer is missing from domain
>      Expression(OrderedCompletion (Integer))
>
> I've also tried to define p(n) as a recursive function like so:
>
> p(0) == 1
> p(n | n > 0) == x^n - sum(proj(p(k),x^n),k=0..n-1)
>
> But get a stack overflow: (eg, evaluating p(1))
>
>   OpenAxiom will attempt to step through and interpret the code.
>   Cannot compile map: proj
>   We will attempt to interpret the code.
>   Cannot compile map: p
>   We will attempt to interpret the code.
>
>   >> System error:
>   Bind stack overflow.
>
> I would appreciate any pointers where I am going wrong. I'm an Axiom
> newbie. These calculations were done using open-axiom 1.2.1
>
> Thanks
> Arnold
>
>
>
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