Bill Allombert on Mon, 12 May 2003 14:37:31 +0200


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Re: CVS: seriesprecision too large


On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 05:27:43PM -0700, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> Did not you notice
> 
> /     1 2   1  4    1  6     1   8      1    10     11  \
> | 1 - -y  + --y  - ---y  + -----y  - -------y  + O(y  ) | x +
> \     2     24     720     40320     3628800            /
> 
> with seriesprecision==9?

This looks like an artefact of the computation. GP 2.1 has the 
same behaviour: 

%2 = y - 1/6*y^3 + 1/120*y^5 - 1/5040*y^7 + O(y^9)) + (1 - 1/2*y^2 + 1/24*y^4 - 1/720*y^6 + 1/40320*y^8 + O(y^10))*x + ...

Cheers,
Bill.