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Re: Work on Basic Mathematica Stephen!
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May 17, 2013 4:34 AM
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.... thank you for the response.
Every WRI employee writes this since years, but "fuzz" stays "fuzz"
and "fuzz" is not essential.
Peter
2013/5/16 Murray Eisenberg <murray@math.umass.edu>:
> If I understand this proposal aa), then I completely disagree. It is *essential* to have the ability to use a function Chop that, e.g., does the following:
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> Chop[4. + 10.^-16 I]
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> The reason is that even when one starts with strictly real functions, it is often the case that Mathematica uses complex-function methods and, due to roundoff, returns results with some pure imaginary "fuzz".
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> On May 16, 2013, at 3:28 AM, Peter Klamser <klamser@googlemail.com> wrote:
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>> . .. A) First proposal: Identify useless or false constructions in Mathematica
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>> aa) Eliminating Chop[] for complex numbers. Complex numbers are
>> oderless and therefore nobody call estimate, weather the distance of 1
>> + 10^-google i to the real numbers is small or big. Chop[] is the
>> result of Mathematica design, that it presents often complex results, where
>> real values are the simpler result and can be reached by
>> ComplexExpand[].
>> The simplest solution is always the best solution.
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