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New issue 3104 by [email protected]: Expectation value of random variables raises maximum recursion depth exceeded
http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=3104

Define the random variables:

X = Normal(0,1)
Y = Normal(0,1)
Z = Normal(0,1)

And now the transformed variable:

W = sqrt(X**2+Y**2+Z**2)

Ask for the expectation:

E(X)

The answer is:

RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded while calling a Python object

Which originated from the poly module, the last function calls are all:

densebasic.pyc in dmp_from_dict(f, u, K)
    993     n, v, h = max(coeffs.iterkeys()), u-1, []
    994
--> 995     for k in xrange(n, -1, -1):
    996         coeff = coeffs.get(k)
    997

BTW: W can be expressed as a Maxwell distribution. How can we teach
sympy to recognize such things? But this is another story ...


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