Re: [Fink-users] Bug in Maxima

2009-01-22 Thread Alexander Hansen
James Howse wrote: > Just an FYI, the latest version of maxima at their sourceforge site is > 5.17.1, perhaps it fixes this error. > Unfortunately, no; but it's apparently fixed in their current CVS version. I've gone ahead and updated to 5.17.1 in current/unstable regardless -- Alexander Hanse

Re: [Fink-users] Bug in Maxima

2009-01-22 Thread James Howse
Just an FYI, the latest version of maxima at their sourceforge site is 5.17.1, perhaps it fixes this error. On 22 Jan 2009, at 04:01, Alexander Hansen wrote: Jean-François Mertens wrote: On 22 Jan 2009, at 03:01, Sean Lake wrote: Hello all,

Re: [Fink-users] Bug in Maxima

2009-01-21 Thread Jean-François Mertens
On 22 Jan 2009, at 04:01, Alexander Hansen wrote: > Jean-François Mertens wrote: >> On 22 Jan 2009, at 03:01, Sean Lake wrote: >> >> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> There's a bug in maxima 5.17.0-5. The input I type in is: >>> >>> integrate(r^(-3), r, R, inf); >>> >>> The output maxima gives me (after res

Re: [Fink-users] Bug in Maxima

2009-01-21 Thread Alexander Hansen
Jean-François Mertens wrote: > On 22 Jan 2009, at 03:01, Sean Lake wrote: > > >> Hello all, >> >> There's a bug in maxima 5.17.0-5. The input I type in is: >> >> integrate(r^(-3), r, R, inf); >> >> The output maxima gives me (after responding that R is positive) is: >> >> Integral is divergent >

Re: [Fink-users] Bug in Maxima

2009-01-21 Thread Jean-François Mertens
On 22 Jan 2009, at 03:01, Sean Lake wrote: > Hello all, > > There's a bug in maxima 5.17.0-5. The input I type in is: > > integrate(r^(-3), r, R, inf); > > The output maxima gives me (after responding that R is positive) is: > > Integral is divergent > -- an error. To debug this try debugmode(t

[Fink-users] Bug in Maxima

2009-01-21 Thread Sean Lake
Hello all, There's a bug in maxima 5.17.0-5. The input I type in is: integrate(r^(-3), r, R, inf); The output maxima gives me (after responding that R is positive) is: Integral is divergent -- an error. To debug this try debugmode(true); The correct output is: 1/(2*R^2) This expression "in