William Stein wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Robert Bradshaw
> <rober...@math.washington.edu> wrote:
>> On Jan 17, 2009, at 6:54 AM, mabshoff wrote:
>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Yann Laigle-Chapuy <SNIP>
>>> Date: Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 4:06 AM
>>> Subject: [Sage Bug Report] or not?
>>> To: Michael Abshoff < SNIP >
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> is the following a feature or a bug?
>>>
>>> sage: 0*log(0)
>>> ...
>>> ValueError: self must be positive
>>>
>>> ok, but
>>>
>>> sage: f=x*log(x)
>>> sage: f(0)
>>> 0
>> I would say that's a bug. Probably an overly-naive simplification.
>> Also, note
> 
> It's a bug, but I think there is not much of a point in even reporting
> it to trac, since it is already fixed in the new symbolics.... which
> Burcin and I wrote 5 *months* ago, and which still aren't the default
> in Sage.
> 

Well, depending on how long before the new symbolics is the default, 
I'd say it's worth reporting and fixing, especially if it's easy.

Jason


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