Thanks, the addon is updated now.

On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 6:13 AM 'Jon Hough' via Programming
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>  Mike, thanks. I noticed I missed that out too.
>
> I have added fexp and merged.
>
> Thanks,
> Jon
>      On Sunday, February 7, 2021, 09:19:56 PM GMT+9, 'Michael Day' via 
> Programming <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>  For interest,  I had a look at the changes in the script.
>
> I tried both derivatives,  and both failed in different ways:
> a)  polynomials using p. :
>     (1 2 3 & p. ) deriv 1   NB. result should be 2 6&p.
> 0&p.
>     (0 & p. ) deriv 1  NB. ok!
> 0&p.
>
> b)   f() ^ h()
>     (*: ^ *:) deriv 1
> |domain error: deriv_jcalculus_
> |       13!:8(3)
>
> After some puzzlement,  I traced the difficulties with each:
> a)  line 170
>       if. coeffs=. -: '' do. '0&p.' return.
> should of course be
>       if. coeffs -: '' do. '0&p.' return.
>
> b) I couldn't see what was wrong until I realised that fexp is undefined!
> So adding a definition along the lines of the other fops removes the
> error condition.
>
> fexp =: 4 : 0
> '((',x,')^(',y,'))'
> )
>
> I wouldn't dare try altering the online source code!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mike
>
> On 05/02/2021 04:34, 'Jon Hough' via Programming wrote:
> > I wrote a bug report and fix in the source chat a couple of weeks ago. 
> > There was no response, so I guess I wrote in the wrong chat.
> >
> > The calculus addon script has one glaring issue, and one small issue with 
> > an easy fix.
> >
> > The glaring issue is the inability to differentiate the constant zero 
> > function
> >
> > 0&p.
> >
> > that gives an error.
> >
> > The fix is here: https://github.com/jsoftware/math_calculus/pull/2
> >
> > I think this should be fixed asap, as it also causes an error on double 
> > differentiation of a linear polynomial.
> >
> > 1 2&p.
> >
> > The other issue is differentiating a general f^g function, which currently 
> > gives an error, but is easily doable.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jon
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