Thank you all for the speedy turnaround on this! In particular:

Vincent and Dima: Thank you for the informative 'code archaeology' and
helpful pointers
Dave: Thank you for filing (and fixing!) #31645
<https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/31645>

Best,
Thomas

On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 12:53 AM [email protected] <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for reporting the bug. It is now trac ticket #31645
> <https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/31645>, and I expect to upload a fix
> soon.
>
> On Friday, April 9, 2021 at 9:29:26 AM UTC-6 [email protected] wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 4:09 PM Vincent Delecroix
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Thanks for the bug report.
>> >
>> > If you know how to proceed, please open a ticket and post the url here.
>> >
>> > - series goes through the ginac library (which is full of bugs and we
>> > are trying to get rid off it)
>>
>> more precisely, it's our fork of ginac, pynac, that is buggy, and it
>> has diverged from ginac quite a bit,
>> so it's unfair to blame ginac, the original upstream;
>> unfortunately the people who used to develop pynac have more or less
>> left the project.
>>
>>
>>
>> > - taylor goes through maxima which is much more reliable
>> >
>> > The sympy library offers a nice alternative for symbolic computations.
>> >
>> > Best
>> > Vincent
>> >
>> > Le 09/04/2021 à 16:01, TBK a écrit :
>> > > To Whom it May Concern:
>> > >
>> > > Per the "Reporting Bugs" procedure
>> > > <https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/developer/trac.html#reporting-bugs>,
>> I am
>> > > emailing sage-devel@ with a suspected bug. I am happy to open a TRAC
>> > > ticket, if appropriate.
>> > >
>> > > I'm getting some seemingly incorrect series expansions. In
>> particular,
>> > > adding a constant is sometimes introducing an $x^{-1}$ term instead
>> of an
>> > > $x^0$ term. I have included below a fairly minimal repro. Sage
>> correctly
>> > > expands `(1-sqrt(1-x))/x`. However, sage insists that adding `123`
>> > > introduces a `123*x^-1` term. Using `taylor()`, I get the expected
>> > > expansion in both cases.
>> > >
>> > > This seems obviously incorrect, but I am new to sage so apologize if
>> this
>> > > is just pilot error. I looked for existing threads on power series
>> bugs.
>> > > The closest I found was this message
>> > > <https://groups.google.com/g/sage-devel/c/_rB24fZSHKs/m/XneaemQ4AgAJ>
>> asserting
>> > > that the combinatorial species code has long been riddled with bugs.
>> If
>> > > this is a bug, is taylor() believed to be less bug-riddled?
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > *Repro:*
>> > > {{{
>> > > sage: ((1-sqrt(1-x))/x + 0).series(x,3)
>> > >
>> > > 1/2 + 1/8*x + 1/16*x^2 + Order(x^3) # correct
>> > > sage: ((1-sqrt(1-x))/x + 123).series(x,3)
>> > >
>> > > 123*x^(-1) + 1/2 + 1/8*x + 1/16*x^2 + Order(x^3) # ???
>> > > # taylor() correctly expands both
>> > > sage: taylor((1-sqrt(1-x))/x + 0,x,0,2)
>> > >
>> > > 1/16*x^2 + 1/8*x + 1/2
>> > > sage: taylor((1-sqrt(1-x))/x + 123,x,0,2)
>> > >
>> > > 1/16*x^2 + 1/8*x + 247/2
>> > > }}}
>> > >
>> > > *Version:*
>> > > │ SageMath version 9.2, Release Date: 2020-10-24 │
>> > > │ Using Python 3.8.5. Type "help()" for help. │
>> > > *OS*: macOS Catalina (10.15.7) (64-bit x86)
>> > >
>> > > Best,
>> > > Thomas
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
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