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 Hansen
Fink User Liaison



>> 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 responding that R is positive) is:
>>>>>
>>>>> Integral is divergent
>>>>>  -- an error.  To debug this try debugmode(true);
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>         
>>>> I get the same, with the previous version of maxima and sbcl
>>>> (machine just got back from repair, still updating..)
>>>> _ and also with "maxima -l clisp" (I build maxima with both lisp
>>>> engines enabled).
>>>> Even just with :
>>>> integrate(r^(-3),r,3,inf);
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>       
>>>>> I don't know if this needs to be passed upstream or not, but thought
>>>>> I'd run it by the list first.
>>>>>
>>>>>         
>>>> Definitely, to maxima (conceivably still something wrong in the  
>>>> syntax ?
>>>> But doesn't seem to me.)
>>>>
>>>> JF Mertens
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>       
>>> I tried 5.13.0 on a Linux box, and got the right answer.  I tried  
>>> 5.17.0
>>> on Windows (built versus GCL, I believe), and it gives the same  
>>> error as
>>> for ours.  I'm inclined to blame the current maxima itself on this.
>>>     
>>
>> Seems you have the most information to send the bug upstream ...  :)
>>
>> JF
>>     


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