About 15 years ago I found a bug that affected all Fourier-like transforms in Mathematica. (It was related to how the constants can be “allocated” between the exponent and an overall scale factor—someone had tried to generalize this concept by being too clever by half, and made a mistake.) I did a sanity check with comp.lang.mathematica or whatever the group is called and then filed a bug report. I understand that the error was not corrected until a later major release of Mathematica.
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @06:52PM (#49076517)
You might want to have a look at this... http://features.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=6981033&cid=49075613...I'm surprised that they do bug fixes at all.
Frequency of Mathematica bug-fix updates (Score:3)
About 15 years ago I found a bug that affected all Fourier-like transforms in Mathematica. (It was related to how the constants can be “allocated” between the exponent and an overall scale factor—someone had tried to generalize this concept by being too clever by half, and made a mistake.) I did a sanity check with comp.lang.mathematica or whatever the group is called and then filed a bug report. I understand that the error was not corrected until a later major release of Mathematica.
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Re:Frequency of Mathematica bug-fix updates (Score:0)
You might want to have a look at this... http://features.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=6981033&cid=49075613 ...I'm surprised that they do bug fixes at all.
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Like a good little Jew, Stephen would throw his own mother into a pit of acid for a shekel.