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In article <mgh3-050193112839@math26647.math.cwru.edu>, mgh3@po.cwru.edu (mike hurley) writes:
>> >Here is a bizzarre mma bug.  Try entering:
>> >
>> >Pi*Sqrt[Pi]/(2*3*Sqrt[2])
>> >
>> >This is very bad.  If anyone knows what is going on,
>> >I would like to hear from them.
>> >
>> >Brett
>> Quite bizarre -- Mathematica just seems to stop dead in its tracks!
>> 
>From a look at this with tracing turned on, it seems that Mma is getting
>caught in an infinite loop, changing Sqrt[(Pi^3)/8]/3 into (Pi/2)^(3/2)/3
>and then back again. I'm speculating that the first change is an attempt
>to simplify the total expression and the second is an attempt to make the
>output "prettier". Bad news.  (mma 2.0 on a sparc; similar results with
>the windows version). 
>
The problem with this explanation is that, when you drop the 2*3, it doesn't
have any trouble...
-- 
Sincerely,

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