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From: daugher@cs.tamu.edu (Dr. Walter C. Daugherity)
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Subject: Bug in Mathematica Collect function
Keywords: Mathematica, Collect, bug, NeXT
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Date: 29 Aug 90 15:35:17 GMT
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In article <1990Aug27.235404.18532@laguna.ccsf.caltech.edu> of 
sci.math.symbolic madler@piglet.caltech.edu (Mark Adler) writes:

>The reported Mathematica Collect[(-1)^(-1+2n)y^2,y] bug also exists on the
>January 20, 1990 version of the kernel on a NeXT, which fixed a previous
>bug in Together[].

Let's hope Wolfram gets a fix to NeXT, and NeXT gets it to us, a lot faster
than the Together bug fix.

P.S. The bug is that the Collect call given above just throws away the (-1)^-1.

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