1 /* Original version of this file copyright 1999 by Michael Wester,
2 * and retrieved from http://www.math.unm.edu/~wester/demos/MathvsCS/local.macsyma
5 * Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2,
6 * per message dated 2007-06-03 from Michael Wester to Robert Dodier
7 * (contained in the file wester-gpl-permission-message.txt).
9 * See: "A Critique of the Mathematical Abilities of CA Systems"
10 * by Michael Wester, pp 25--60 in
11 * "Computer Algebra Systems: A Practical Guide", edited by Michael J. Wester
12 * and published by John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, United Kingdom, 1999.
14 /* ----------[ M a c s y m a ]---------- */
15 /* ---------- Initialization ---------- */
18 /* ---------- Mathematics vs Computer Science ---------- */
19 /* Is k really treated as a local variable in the following situations where it
20 is clearly a mathematically local variable? */
24 integrate(k, k, 0, 1);
28 errcatch(limit(k, k, 0));
29 errcatch(integrate(k, k, 0, 1));