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Re: Wolfram Research QA process defect: Bug in Mathematica 6 - Integrate - 76 (Log, invalid value, NEW regression bug)

by David W. Cantrell <DWCantrell@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Feb 2, 2008 at 07:20 PM

Vladimir Bondarenko <vb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>    N[ ( 4 Catalan + 3 Pi Log[5]  - 2 ArcTan[2] Log[5]  - 2 I
>    PolyLog[2, 2/5 - I/5]  +  2 I PolyLog[2, 2/5 + I/5] )/4 ]
>
>    NIntegrate[Log[1 + z^2]/(2 - 2 z + z^2), {z, 0,Infinity}]
>
>                   3.56442
>                   3.56442
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>    Integrate[Log[1 + z^2]/(2 - 2 z + z^2), {z, 0, Infinity}]
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> VERSION           OUTPUT                               RESOLUTION
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Mathematica 6.0   -1.49177  <-------------------------------- BUG
>
> Mathematica 5.2   Correct answer                               OK
>
> Mathematica 4.2   Correct answer                               OK
>
> Mathematica 3.0   Unevaluated integral                         OK
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------

A correct answer, exactly as shown by VB above as the argument of N, can
easily be obtained from the current version of Mathematica: just get

Integrate[Log[1 + z^2]/(2 - 2 z + z^2), z]

and then apply Newton-Leibniz and FullSimplify. Of course, that hardly
excuses the current bug. Is it perhaps due to a convolution problem?

David
 




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Re: Wolfram Research QA process defect: Bug in Mathematica 6 - I
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