12.04.2011 02:20, Aaron S. Meurer пишет:
> On Apr 11, 2011, at 4:12 PM, Alexey U. Gudchenko wrote:
> 
>> 12.04.2011 01:56, Ronan Lamy пишет:
>>> Le lundi 11 avril 2011 à 15:42 -0600, Aaron S. Meurer a écrit :
>>>> On Apr 11, 2011, at 2:25 AM, smichr wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Should `Integral(x, (x, 1, 2)) == Integral(y, (y, 1, 2))` be True? If
>>>>> so, smichr branch 2068b has a commit that makes this testing possible.
>>>>>
>>>> This is a good question.  For one thing, == is not mathematical
>>>> equality but exact equality, so there is no reason why it should have
>>>> to be True.  So my initial response is that no, it should not.  
>>>>
>>> I think it should. x and y are bound symbols that have no meaning
>>> outside the integrals, so their identity should be completely
>>> irrelevant. In fact, they should probably be replaced with dummies upon
>>> instantiation of the Integral.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Mathematically equal. (especially when assumptions for symbols are equal
>> too).
>>
>> Another question what means "==" in SymPy: mathematical
>> or not (pythonic?).
>>
>> Aaron, what do you mean by "exact equality"?
>> E.g Does the "Max(1, 2, x)" exact equal to the "Max(2, x)" or not?
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Alexey U.
> 
> "Exact" meaning it checks if the objects are equal.  The usual example is 
> that we have
> 
>>>> (x + 1)**2 == x**2 + 2*x + 1
> False
> 
> I thought Max(1, 2, x) automatically reduced to Max(2, x).  In that case, 
> then, obviously they would be equal with ==.  Also you would have Max(2, x) 
> == Max(x, 2) because it internally uses a data structure that does not care 
> about order (set or frozenset). 

> Whenever you see == in SymPy, it is specifically assuming this exact/object 
> equality. 
> 
> Another thing to consider is:
> 
> In [190]: hash(Integral(x, (x, 0, 1)))
> Out[190]: -9173880960074697984
> 
> In [191]: hash(Integral(y, (y, 0, 1)))
> Out[191]: −299967655319032172
> 
> A == B should imply hash(A) == hash(B).
> 
> Aaron Meurer
> 

About Max, you are right exactly.

But why not to use data structure in Integrals too (do not care about
dummy variable) ?

-- 
Alexey U.

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